Article 332 Revised Penal Code

Article 332 of the Revised Penal Code is about Persons exempt from criminal liability. It is under Chapter Ten (Exemption From Criminal Liability In Crimes Against Property) of Title Ten (Crimes Against Property) of the Code.

Persons exempt from criminal liability

No criminal, but only civil liability, shall result from the commission of the crime of theft, swindling or malicious mischief committed or caused mutually by the following persons:

1. Spouses, ascendants and descendants, or relatives by affinity in the same line.

2. The widowed spouse with respect to the property which belonged to the deceased spouse before the same shall have passed into the possession of another; and

3. Brothers and sisters and brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, if living together.

The exemption established by this article shall not be applicable to strangers participating in the commission of the crime.

See also: Article 331 Revised Penal Code