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Two kinds:
1. COMPOUND CRIME: a single act constitutes two or more grave or less grave
felonies
2. COMPLEX CRIME PROPER: offense is necessary means for committing the
other
1.COMPOUND
a. only one single act is performed by the offender
b. produces (1) 2 or more grave felonies
(2) one or more grave felonies and one or more less grave felonies
(3) two or more less grave felonies
People vs. GUILLEN:
Single act: throwing hand grenade
Product: murder and multiple attempted murder
TWO OR MORE GRAVE OR LESS GRAVE FELONIES.
-Light felonies produced by the same act: (1)treated and punished as separate
offenses (several light felonies) or (2) absorbed by the grave felony.
PENALTY: penalty for the most serious crime applied in its maximum period
PLURALITY OF CRIMES
Successive execution by the same individual of different criminal acts upon any of
which no conviction has yet been declared.
KINDS:
1.FORMAL OR IDEAL- one criminal liability
a) complex crimes under art 48
b) law specifically fixes a single penalty for two or more offenses committed (ex:
robbery with homicide)
c) continued crime
2.REAL OR MATERIAL- there are different crimes in law as well as in the
conscience of the offender
CONTINUED CRIME: a single crime, consisting of a series of acts but all arising
from one criminal resolution
-set foot by a single impulse
-NOT a complex crime: offender does not commit only a single act but a series of
acts
-not being a complex crime, the penalty should not be imposed in its maximum
period