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    Art. 4. Criminal Liability. - Criminal Liability Shall Be Incurred

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    This document discusses criminal liability under Philippine law. It states that criminal liability is incurred: 1) By committing a felony even if the wrongful act differs from what was intended; and 2) By performing an act that would be an offense against persons or property if not impossible or inadequate means were used. It then provides further details on liability for wrongful acts differing from intent, discussing proximate cause, intervening causes, and impossibility crimes against persons or property.

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    Art. 4. Criminal liability.

    Criminal liability shall be incurred:


    1. By any person committing a felony (delito) although the
    wrongful act done be different from that which he intended.
    2. By any person performing an act which would be an
    offense against persons or property, were it not for the inherent
    impossibility of its accomplishment or an account of the
    employment of inadequate or ineffectual means.
    A. PUNISHABLE CONDUCT
    1. WRONGFUL ACT DIFFERENT FROM THAT INTENDED
    One who commits an intentional felony is responsible for all the
    consequences which may naturally and logically result therefrom,
    whether foreseen or intended or not.
    Rationale: el que es causa de la causa es causa del mal
    causado
    He who is the cause of the cause is the cause of the evil caused

    When a person has not committed a felony, he is not criminally


    liable for the result which is not intended.
    The causes which may produce a result different from that
    which the offender intended are:
    a. ERROR IN PERSONAE
    mistake in the identity of the victim;
    injuring one person mistaken for another (this
    is a complex crime under Art. 49)
    b. ABERRATIO ICTUS
    mistake in the blow, that is,
    when the offender intending to do an injury to
    one person actually inflicts it on another; and
    c. PRAETER INTENTIONEM
    the act exceeds the intent, that is,
    the injurious result is greater than that
    intended.

    The felony committed must be the proximate cause of the


    resulting injury.
    PROXIMATE CAUSE - CUW
    the cause, which, in natural and continuous
    sequence,
    unbroken by any efficient intervening cause,
    produces the injury,
    and without which the result would not have
    occurred.
    When death is presumed to be the natural consequence of
    physical injuries inflicted:
    1. That the victim at the time the physical injuries were
    inflicted was in normal health.
    2. That the death may be expected from the physical injuries
    inflicted.
    3. That death ensued within a reasonable time.
    The felony committed is not the proximate cause of the
    resulting injury when:
    a. There is an active force that intervened between the felony
    committed and the resulting injury, and the active force is a
    distinct act or fact absolutely foreign from the felonious act of the
    accused; or
    b. The resulting injury is due to the intentional act of the victim.
    2. an act which would be an offense against persons or
    property,
    IMPOSSIBLE CRIMES only applicable in cases of
    crimes against:
    1. persons
    2. property

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