Practice question
A person deliberately performs the wrongful act intending its unlawful result but explains that a personal motive was sympathetic. Does a sympathetic motive by itself convert the stipulated deliberate wrongdoing into negligence?
- Yes, the result alone controls every mental-state finding
- Yes, every sympathetic motive converts dolo into culpa
- Yes, motive eliminates the deliberate act automatically
- Yes, only public motives can accompany intent
- No
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code, Articles3 and5, as applicable: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html
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