Article 20Accessories who are exempt from criminal liability

Act No. 3815 · Revised Penal Code

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Close relatives of the principal (spouses, parents, children, siblings) are exempt from liability as accessories — except when they profit from the crime or for crimes against each other.

Official text — Act No. 3815

Accessories who are exempt from criminal liability.

-The penalties prescribed for accessories shall not be imposed upon those who are such with respect to their spouses, ascendants, descendants, legitimate, natural, and adopted brothers and sisters, or relatives by affinity within the same degrees, with the single exception of accessories falling within the provisions of paragraph 1 of the next preceding article.

TITLE THREE

PENALTIES

CHAPTER ONE

PENALTIES IN GENERAL

Source: lawphil.net (Act No. 3815 as amended)

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