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Penal Code Amendment
Approved June 14, 1949

Republic Act No. 373

Republic act no. 373, june 14, 1949

Republic Act No. 373, June 14, 1949

In plain language

An act increasing the penalty in certain cases of robbery by amending Article 295 of the Revised Penal Code.

  • Article 295 amended to cover robbery with physical injuries in uninhabited places, by a band, or with firearms.
  • Robbery involving firearms on streets, roads, or alleys is now subject to maximum penalties.
  • The act extends to robbery on moving trains, streetcars, motor vehicles, and airships with use of firearms.
Penal Code
Robbery
Philippines
Crime Law

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 373, June 14, 1949 ]

AN ACT INCREASING THE PENALTY IN CERTAIN CASES OF ROBBERY, BY AMENDING ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE OF THE REVISED PENAL CODE.

Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1

Article two hundred ninety-five of the Revised Penal Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

ART. 295.Robbery with physical injuries, committed in an uninhabited place and by a band, or with the use of firearm on a street, road or alley. If the offenses mentioned in subdivisions three, four, and five of the next preceding article shall have been committed in an uninhabited place or by a band, or by attacking a moving train, street car, street motor vehicle or airship, or by entering the passengers compartments in a train or, in any manner, taking the passengers thereof by surprise in the respective conveyances, or on a street, road, highway, or alley, and the intimidation is made with the use of a firearm, the offender shall be punished by the maximum period of the proper penalties.

Section 2

This Act shall take effect upon its approval

Approved, June 14, 1949.

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