Practice question
A prosecutor invokes Article 6’s general punishment of incomplete felonies for a nonconsummated light felony outside the persons-or-property exception. No special rule supplies liability. It says Article 7 can simply be ignored. Which is sound?
- Read the provisions together and apply Article 7’s specific qualification.
- The specific light-felony rule has no effect.
- Article 6 automatically repealed the next article.
- Every light felony is necessarily against property.
- The prosecutor may choose whichever text it prefers.
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code, Articles 6-8 and 304-305 (cited provisions): https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/28/20426
- RA 10951, Section 1, current Article 9 classification (no reliance on the original Code’s obsolete monetary threshold): https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2017/ra_10951_2017.html
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