Criminal Law - Art. 6

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ARTICLE 6.

STAGES IN THE COMMISSION OF A FELONY (BY MEANS OF DOLO)


CONSUMMATED FRUSTRATED ATTEMPTED
/Overt acts of execution are started (overt acts
/All the acts of execution are present /All the acts of execution are present performed must have a direct connection with
the felony intended to be committed)
/Crime sought to be committed is not
STAGES /Not all acts of execution are present
achieved
/The result sought is achieved
/Due to the intervening causes /Due to the reasons other than the spontaneous
independent of the will of the perpetrator desistance of the perpetrator
/The subjective phase is passed but the
/Both subjective and object phases are present /The subjective phase is not yet passed
felony is not produced
CRITERIA (1) the MANNER OF COMMITTING THE CRIME (2) the ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME (3) the NATURE OF THE CRIME itself
INTERNAL ACTS EXTERNAL ACTS
(a) Preparatory Acts - acts tending toward
the crime; as a rule these are not
DEVELOPMENT OF
punished unless these acts are punished in
A CRIME -intent and plans; usually not punishable
themselves as independent crimes
NOTES:
(b) Acts of Execution - acts directly
**Desistance on the part of the offender
connected to the crime
negates criminal liability in the attempted stage.
SUBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE
**Desistance is true only in the attempted stage
-that portion of the execution of the crime starting of the felony. If under the definition of the
from the point where the offender begins to that felony, the act done is already in the frustrated
PHASE -the result of the acts of the execution,
point where he still has control of his acts. If it stage, no amount of desistance will negate
that is, the accomplishment of the crime
reaches the point where he has no more control criminal liability.
over his acts, this phase is passed.
FORMAL MATERIAL
-those which have three stages of
TYPES OF CRIME -those which are always consummated by a single
execution, namely, attempted, frustrated,
act like slander
consummated

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