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Practice question: Impossible Crime

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

For Article 4(2), the intended act must be of what kind?
  1. Any act the offender personally dislikes
  2. An offense against persons or property but for the qualifying impossibility or inadequate means
  3. Any imagined breach of etiquette
  4. Only a tax offense
  5. Only an offense against public order

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html — RPC Articles4(2),6 and59: impossible objective or means distinguished from stages of a possible felony.
  • https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1992/oct1992/gr_103119_1992.html — Intod v. Court of Appeals, G.R. 103119, October 21, 1992, main decision: factual and legal impossibility, absent intended victim and empty-pocket example.
  • https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2009/jul2009/gr_162540_2009.html — Jacinto v. People, G.R. 162540, July 13, 2009, main decision: evil intent, impossible taking of a worthless check and distinction from a separate criminal scheme.

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