FELONIES
LIGHT FELONIES – Infractions of
law in which the penalty is
arresto menor (1 day to 30
days) or a fine not exceeding 20
pesos or both.
1. Vagrancy
2. Light Threats
3. Light Coercions
4. Betting in Sports
Contest
5. Illegal Cockfighting
6. Alteration of Boundary
Marks
7. Prostitution
8. Alarms and Scandals
9. Gambling
10. Malicious Mischief (if
value does not exceed
200 pesos)
11. Intriguing Against Honor
12. Using False Certificates
13. Slight Physical Injury
14. Slander by Deed (if not
serious in nature)
15. Theft (value not stolen
is not over 5 pesos, and
the offender acted
under the impulse of
hunger, poverty)
LESS GRAVE FELONIES –
penalties in their maximum
period are correctional (1
month and 1 day to 6 years).
1. Sedition
2. Slavery
3. Arbitrary Detention
4. Violation of Domicile
5. Direct Bribery
6. Disloyalty of Public
Officers or Employees
7. Espionage
8. Grave Scandal
9. Unintentional Abortion
10. Disturbance of
Proceeding
11. Forcible Abduction
12. Interruption of Religious
Worship
13. Giving Assistance to
Suicide
14. Falsification of
Legislative Documents
15. Flight to Enemy’s
Country
GRAVE FELONIES – the law
attaches a capital punishment
or a penalty which is afflictive in
any of its periods (6 yrs. and 1
day to reclusion perpetua/life).
1. Rape
2. Treason
3. Infanticide
4. Parricide
5. Murder
6. Homicide
7. Mutilation
8. Destructive Arson
9. Qualified Bribery
10. Intentional Abortion
11. Qualified Piracy
12. Robbery with Homicide
13. Kidnapping and Serious
Illegal Detention
14. Kidnapping and Failure
to Return Minor
15. Counterfeiting the Great
Seal of the Government
of the Philippine Island