Practice question
Under Article 10, what is the Revised Penal Code’s general relationship to special penal laws?
- It may supplement them unless they specially provide otherwise, with due regard to the provisions’ applicability.
- It automatically repeals every special penal law.
- It can never have any supplementary role.
- It replaces every special law’s express elements.
- It makes every special-law penalty identical.
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code, Act No. 3815, specified articles, as amended: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/28/20426; Articles 8 and 10.
- Ladonga v People, G.R. No. 141066, February 17, 2005, main decision, Article 10 and proof of conspiracy: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2005/feb2005/gr_141066_2005.html
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