Life imprisonment – 40 yrs confinement in the reformatory is entitled to the benefits of the law

AP Reclusion perpetua – 20 yrs 1 d to 40 yrs because confinement is not considered imprisonment)

AP Reclusion temporal – 12 yrs 1 d to 20 yrs 7. Those who having been granted conditional pardon by the President
AP Prision mayor – 6 yrs 1 d to 12 yrs shall have violated the terms thereof
CP Prision correccional – 6 mos to 6 yrs 8. Those whose maximum period of imprisonment does not exceed 1
CP Arresto mayor – 1 mo 1 d to 6 mos year
LP Arresto menor – 1 d to 30 d
CP Destierro – not more than 250 and not less than 25 km Disqualifications under probation law
1. Those whose maximum term of imprisonment is more than 6 years
PRESCRIPTION CRIME PENALTY 2. Those who have been convicted of subversion and crimes against
Death, Reclusion perpetua, Death, Reclusion national security
20 yrs
Reclusion temporal perpetua – 20 yrs 3. Those who have previously been convicted by final judgment of an
Other afflictive penalties – Reclusion temporal, offense punished by imprisonment of more than six (6) months and
15 yrs
Prision mayor prision mayor – 15 yrs one (1) day and/or a fine of more than one thousand pesos (P1,000.00)
Correctional penalties – 4. Those who have already availed the benefit of probation
Prision correccional, 10 yrs 10 yrs 5. Those who have perfected an appeal from judgment of conviction
Destierro 6. Those convicted of an election offense under the Omnibus Election
Arresto mayor 5 yrs 5 yrs Code
Light penalties – Arresto Offenses – 7. Those convicted of drug trafficking or drug pushing
Penalties – 1 yr
menor 2 mos 8. Those who filed a malicious report that a person is committing a
Libel and other similar violation of Anti-money laundering law and was convicted because of
1 yr
offenses such malicious filing
Oral defamation and slander
6 mos
by deed TITLE 1 – Crimes against national security and the law of nations

Disqualifications under the indeterminate sentence law 1. Treason

1. Convicted crime punished by death or life imprisonment (Reclusion 2. Conspiracy to commit treason
perpetua is held by the Supreme Court in People v. Enriquez G.R. 3. Proposal to commit treason
No.158797, July 29, 2005) 4. Misprision of treason
2. Those convicted of treason, conspiracy or proposal to commit 5. Espionage
treason, misprision of treason 6. Inciting to war or giving motives for reprisals
3. Those convicted of rebellion, sedition, or espionage 7. Violation of neutrality
4. Those convicted piracy 8. Correspondence with hostile county
5. Those who are habitual delinquents (In People v. Jaranilla, G.R. No. 9. Flight to enemy’s country
28547, Feb. 22, 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that Recidivist are 10. Piracy
entitled to an indeterminate sentence law) 11. PD 532 – Anti-piracy and anti-robbery law of 1974
6. Those who shall have escaped from confinement or evaded sentence 12. Mutiny
(In People v. Perez, 44 OG 3884, a minor who escaped from 13. Qualified piracy
 14. Qualified mutiny 15. Illegal assembly
15. RA 6235 – Anti-hijacking law 16. Illegal associations
16. RA 9372 – Human security act 17. Direct assault
18. Qualified direct assault
TITLE 2 – Crimes against fundamental laws of the state 19. Indirect assault
20. Disobedience to summons issued by the national assembly, its
1. Arbitrary detention by detaining a person without legal grounds committees or subcommittees, by the constitutional
2. Arbitrary detention by failing to deliver the detained person to commissions, its committees, subcommittees or divisions
proper judicial authorities within 12, 18, 36 hours 21. Resistance and serious disobedience to a person in authority or
3. Arbitrary detention by delaying the release of prisoners despite the agents of such person
the judicial or executive order 22. Simple disobedience to a person in authority or the agents of
4. Expulsion such person
5. Violation of domicile 23. Tumults and other disturbances
6. Violation of domicile when search warrants was maliciously 24. Unlawful use of means of publication and unlawful utterances
obtained 25. Alarms and scandals
7. Violation of domicile when there is abuse in the service of 26. Delivering prisoners from jail
those legally obtained 27. Evasion of service of sentence
8. Violation of domicile when searching without witnesses 28. Evasion of service of sentence on the occasion of disorders,
9. Prohibition, interruption and dissolution of peaceful meetings conflagration, earthquakes or other calamities
10. Interruption of religious worship 29. Evasion of service of sentence by violation of conditional
11. Offending religious feelings pardon

TITLE 3 – Crimes against public order TITLE 4 – Crimes against public interest

1. Rebellion or insurrection 1. Counterfeiting the great seal of the government of the

2. Conspiracy to commit rebellion or insurrection Philippine islands
3. Proposal to commit rebellion or insurrection 2. Forging the signature of the president
4. Inciting to rebellion or insurrection 3. Forging the stamp of the president
5. Coup d’etat 4. Using forged signature or counterfeit seal or stamp
6. Conspiracy to commit coup d’etat 5. Making false coins
7. Proposal to commit coup d’etat 6. Importing false coins
8. Sedition 7. Uttering false coins
9. Conspiracy to commit sedition 8. Mutilation of coins
10. Inciting to sedition 9. PD 247 - Prohibiting and penalizing defacement, mutilation,
11. RA 1059, as amended – Use of unlicensed firearms tearing, burning or destruction of central bank notes and coins
12. Acts tending to prevent the meeting of the assembly and 10. Selling of false or mutilated coin, without connivance
similar bodies 11. Forging or falsification of treasury or bank notes or other
13. Disturbance of proceedings documents payable to bearer
14. Violation of parliamentary immunity 12. Importation of such false or forged obligations or notes
13. Uttering of such false or forged obligations or notes in
connivance with the forgers or importers TITLE 5 – Crimes relative to opium and other prohibited drugs
14. Counterfeiting, importing and uttering instruments payable to
bearer RA 9165
15. Illegal possession and use of false treasury or bank notes and
other instruments of credit 1. Importation of dangerous drugs – C&P
16. Falsification of a public, official, commercial document by 2. Illegal sale of dangerous drugs – C&P
public officer 3. Maintenance of a den, dive or resort – C&P
17. Falsification of a public, official, commercial document by 4. Manufacture of dangerous drugs – C&P
employee 5. Illegal possession of dangerous drugs
18. Falsification of a public, official, commercial document by 6. Illegal possession of drug paraphernalia
notary public 7. Illegal possession of dangerous drugs during parties, social
19. Falsification of a public, official, commercial document by gatherings or meetings
ecclesiastical minister 8. Illegal use of dangerous drugs
20. Falsification of a public, official, commercial document by a 9. Planting of evidence
private individual
21. Falsification of a private document by any person TITLE 6 – Crimes against public morals
22. Use of falsified document
23. Falsification of wireless telegraph and telephone messages 1. Importation, sale and possession of lottery tickets or
24. Issuing false medical certificates advertisements
25. Issuing false certificates 2. Betting in sports contest
26. Issuing false merit of services 3. Illegal betting in horse races
27. Using of false certificate 4. Illegal cockfighting
28. Manufacturing and possession of instruments or implements 5. Grave scandal
for falsification 6. Immoral doctrines, obscene publications and exhibitions and
29. Usurpation of authority indecent shows
30. Usurpation of official functions 7. Vagrancy – decriminalized
31. Using fictitious name 8. Prostitution
32. Concealing true name
33. CA No. 142 – Anti-alias Law TITLE 7 – Crimes committed by public officers
34. Illegal use of insignia, uniform or dress
35. False testimony against defendant 1. Knowingly rendering unjust judgements
36. False testimony favorable to defendant 2. Judgement rendered through negligence
37. False testimony in civil cases 3. Unjust interlocutory orders
38. Perjury 4. Malicious delay in the administration of justice
39. Offering false testimony in evidence 5. Dereliction of duty in the prosecution of offenses: Maliciously
40. Machinations in public auctions refraining from instituting prosecution against violators of the
41. Monopolies and combination in restraint of trade law
42. Importation and disposition of falsely marked articles
6. Dereliction of duty in the prosecution of offenses: Maliciously 36. Maltreatment of prisoners
tolerating the commission of offenses 37. RA 9745 – Anti-torture act
7. Betrayal of trust of and attorney or solicitor 38. Anticipation of duties of a public office
8. Direct bribery 39. Prolonging performance of duties and powers
9. Indirect bribery 40. Abandonment of office or position
10. Qualified bribery 41. Usurpation of legislative powers
11. RA 3019 – Anti-graft and corrupt practices act 42. Usurpation of executive functions
12. Corruption of public officials 43. Usurpation of judicial functions
13. Frauds against public treasury 44. Disobeying request of disqualification
14. Illegal exactions 45. Order or request by executive officers to any judicial authority
15. Other frauds 46. Unlawful appointments
16. Prohibited transactions 47. Abuses against chastity
17. Possession of prohibited interest by a public officer
18. Malversation of public funds or property TITLE 8 – Crimes against persons
19. Failure of accountable officer to render accounts
20. Failure of responsible public officer to render accounts before 1. Parricide
leaving the country 2. Murder
21. Technical malversation: Illegal use of public funds or property 3. Homicide
22. Failure to make delivery of public funds or property 4. Death caused in a tumultuous affray
23. RA 7080 – Anti-plunder act 5. Physical injuries inflicted in tumultuous affray
24. Infidelity in the custody of prisoners by conniving with or 6. Giving assistance to suicide
consenting to evasion 7. Illegal discharge of firearms
25. Infidelity in the custody of prisoners by evasion through 8. Infanticide
negligence 9. Intentional abortion
26. Infidelity in the custody of prisoners by escape of prisoner 10. Abortion practiced by a physician or midwife by dispensing
under the custody of a person not a public office abortives
27. Infidelity in the custody of documents by removal, 11. Abortion by the woman herself or the mother
concealment or destruction of document 12. Unintentional abortion
28. Infidelity in the custody of documents by breaking the seal 13. Duel
29. Infidelity in the custody of documents by opening a closed 14. Challenging to duel
document 15. Mutilation
30. Revelation of secrets by an officer 16. Serious physical injuries
31. Revelation of secrets by a public officer revealing secrets of 17. Qualified serious physical injuries
private individual 18. Less serious physical injuries
32. Open disobedience 19. Qualified less serious physical injuries
33. Disobedience to order of superior officer when said order was 20. Slight physical injuries
suspended by inferior officer 21. Ill treatment of another by deed
34. Refusal of assistance 22. Administering injurious substances or beverages
35. Refusal to discharge elective office 23. Rape by carnal knowledge
 24. Qualified rape by carnal knowledge 29. Revealing secrets with the abuse of office
25. Statutory rape 30. Revelation of industrial secrets
26. Rape through sexual assault 31. RA 4200 – Anti-wiretapping law
27. Attempted rape with homicide
28. Rape with homicide TITLE 10 – Crimes against property
29. RA 9262 – VAWC
30. RA 8040 – Anti-hazing law 1. Robbery with violence against persons (simple robbery)
31. RA 7610 – Anti-child abuse act 2. Robbery with homicide
3. Robbery with rape
TITLE 9 – Crimes against personal liberty and security 4. Robbery with intentional mutilation
5. Robbery with arson
1. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention 6. Robbery with serious physical injuries
2. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention for ransom 7. Robbery with unnecessary violence
3. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention with homicide 8. Robbery by a band
4. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention with rape 9. Robbery with intimidation of persons (simple robbery)
5. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention with physical injuries 10. Robbery with force upon things in an inhabited house
6. Slight illegal detention 11. Robbery with force upon things in a public building
7. Unlawful arrest 12. Robbery with force upon things in an edifice devoted to
8. Kidnapping and failure to return a minor worship
9. Inducing a minor to abandon his home 13. Robbery in an uninhabited place
10. Slavery 14. Robbery in a private building
11. Exploitation of child labor 15. Robbery committed in uninhabited place and by a band
12. Services rendered under compulsion in payment of debt 16. Brigandage
13. Abandonment of person in danger 17. Highway robbery (PD 532 – The anti-highway robbery law of
14. Abandonment of one's own victim 1974)
15. Abandoning a minor 18. Possession of picklocks
16. Abandonment of a child by person entrusted with custody 19. Theft
17. Indifference of parents 20. Qualified theft
18. Exploitation of a child 21. Carnapping (RA 6539, as amended – Anti-carnapping act)
19. Qualified trespass to dwelling 22. Theft of the property of the national library and national
20. Trespass to property museum
21. Grave threats 23. Occupation of real property
22. Light threats 24. Usurpation of real rights in property
23. Other light threats 25. Altering boundaries or landmarks
24. Grave coercions 26. Fraudulent insolvency
25. Light coercions 27. Syndicated estafa
26. Other light coercions 28. Estafa with unfaithfulness or abuse of confidence
27. Unjust vexation 29. Estafa by means of false pretenses or fraudulent acts
28. Discovering secrets through seizure of correspondence 30. Estafa through fraudulent means
 31. BP 22 – Bouncing checks law 6. Marriages contracted against provision of law
32. Other forms of swindling 7. Premature marriages
33. Swindling a minor 8. Performance of illegal marriage ceremony
34. Other deceits
35. Removal, sale or pledge of mortgaged property TITLE 13 – Crimes against honor
36. Destructive arson (RPC, as amended by RA 7659)
37. Simple arson (PD 1613 – Anti-arson law) 1. Libel (written defamation)
38. Conspiracy to commit arson (PD 1613 – Anti-arson law) 2. Blackmailing: Threatening to publish a libel
39. Malicious mischief 3. Prohibited publication of acts referred to in the course of
40. Qualified malicious mischief official proceedings
41. Other mischiefs 4. Grave slander (oral defamation)
42. Damage and obstruction to means of communication 5. Simple slander (oral defamation)
43. Destroying or damaging statues, public monuments or 6. Grave slander by deed
paintings 7. Simple slander by deed
8. Incriminating innocent persons
TITLE 11 – Crimes against chastity 9. Intriguing against honor

1. Adultery TITLE 14 – Quasi-offenses

2. Concubinage
3. Acts of lasciviousness under the circumstances of rape 1. Reckless imprudence resulting in homicide
4. Acts of lasciviousness under the circumstances of seduction 2. Reckless imprudence resulting in multiple homicide
5. Qualified seduction of a virgin 3. Reckless imprudence resulting in physical injuries
6. Qualified seduction of a sister 4. Simple imprudence
7. Simple seduction 5. Simple negligence
8. Corruption of minors
9. White slave trade
10. Forcible abduction
11. Consented abduction
12. RA 7877 – Anti-sexual harassment act of 1995
13. RA 9995 – Anti-photo and video voyeurism act of 2009

TITLE 12 – Crimes against the civil status of persons

1. Simulation of birth
2. Substitution of a child with another
3. Abandoning a legitimate child with intent to lose its real civil
status
4. Usurpation of civil status
5. Bigamy