- Statute
- Philippine Revised Penal Code
- Article
- Art. 268
- Topic
- Slight illegal detention
- Status
- In force
- Year
- 1930
- Cited by
- A Supreme Court decision
The provision
Art. 268. Slight illegal detention. — The penalty of reclusion temporal shall be imposed upon any private individual who shall commit the crimes described in the next preceding article without the attendance of any of the circumstances enumerated therein.
The same penalty shall be incurred by anyone who shall furnish the place for the perpetration of the crime.
If the offender shall voluntarily release the person so kidnapped or detained within three days from the commencement of the detention, without having attained the purpose intended, and before the institution of criminal proceedings against him, the penalty shall be prision mayor in its minimum and medium periods and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000).
Intellegal Wiki · In plain terms
Slight illegal detention, meaning kidnapping or detaining a person without the aggravating circumstances of serious illegal detention, is punished by reclusion temporal, and anyone who furnishes the place for it faces the same penalty. If the offender voluntarily frees the victim within three days, before achieving his aim and before charges are filed, the penalty drops to prision mayor in its minimum and medium periods plus a fine up to one hundred thousand pesos.
An editorially maintained plain-language explanation of this provision — not legal advice.
Cases applying this article
- People v. Pagalasan G.R. No. 131926