Practice question
What should a court do under Article5 when it encounters an act it believes should be repressed but which is not punishable by law?
- Invent an offense immediately
- Render the proper decision and report the reasons for proposed penal legislation through the prescribed channel
- Impose the closest available penalty by analogy
- Ask the complainant to choose imprisonment
- Treat every ethical rule as a penal statute
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code Article5: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html
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