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Practice question: Aberratio Ictus; Error In Personae; Praeter Intentionem

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

What is error in personae?
  1. Every unintended medical complication
  2. Mistaking the identity of the person deliberately attacked
  3. An inherently impossible objective in every case
  4. A typographical error in an appeal
  5. A mandatory finding of innocence

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html — RPC Articles4(1),13(3) and49: unintended consequences, lack of intention to commit so grave a wrong and different intended offense.
  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1932/act_4000_1932.html — Current amended Article 48: single act constituting two or more grave or less grave felonies.
  • https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2024/apr2024/gr_262603_2024.html — People v. Sia, G.R. 262603, April 15, 2024, main decision: mistaken identity and mistake in blow do not automatically negate intent.
  • https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1950/jan1950/gr_l-1477_1950.html — People v. Guillen, G.R. L-1477, January 18, 1950, main decision: Article 48 rather than automatic Article 49 in the single-act multiple-felony setting; historical death sentence not adopted.

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