Statute
Philippine Revised Penal Code
Article
Art. 294
Topic
Robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons-Penalties
Status
In force, as amended
Year
1930
Cited by
Multiple Supreme Court decisions

The provision

Robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons-Penalties. -Any person guilty of robbery with the use of violence against or intimidation of any person shall suffer: 1. The penalty of reclusion perpetua to death, when by reason or on occasion of the robbery, the crime of homicide shall have been committed. 2. The penalty of reclusion temporal in its medium period to reclusion perpetua, when the robbery shall have been accompanied by rape or intentional mutilation, or if by reason or on occasion of such robbery, any of the physical injuries penalized in subdivision 1 of article 263 shall have been inflicted, or the person robbed shall have been held for ransom or deprived of his liberty for more than one day. 3. The penalty of reclusion temporal, when by reason or on occasion of the robbery, any of the physical injuries penalized in subdivision 2 of the article mentioned in the next preceding paragraph, shall have been inflicted. 4. The penalty of prision mayor in its medium period to reclusion temporal in its minimum period, if the violence or intimidation employed in the commission of the robbery shall have been carried to a degree clearly unnecessary for the commisison of the crime, or when in the course of its execution, the offender shall have inflicted upon any person not responsible for its commission any of the physical injuries covered by subdivisions 3 and 4 of said article 263. 5. The penalty of prision correccional to prision mayor in its medium period in other cases.

Intellegal Wiki · In plain terms

This sets graduated penalties for robbery committed with violence against or intimidation of persons, scaling them to the harm done: the heaviest when a killing occurs by reason or on occasion of the robbery, and progressively lighter penalties for robbery attended by rape, mutilation, serious injuries, detention or ransom, unnecessary violence, or other cases.

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As amended: the death penalty was abolished by RA 9346 (2006); where a provision would impose death, the maximum penalty is now reclusion perpetua.

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