- Statute
- Revised Penal Code
- Article
- Art. 77
- Topic
- Statutory provision
- Status
- In force
- Year
- 1930
The provision
Art. 77. When the penalty is a complex one composed of three distinct penalties. — In cases in which the law prescribes a penalty composed of three distinct penalties, each one shall form a period; the lightest of them shall be the minimum the next the medium, and the most severe the maximum period.
Whenever the penalty prescribed does not have one of the forms specially provided for in this Code, the periods shall be distributed, applying by analogy the prescribed rules.
Intellegal Wiki · In plain terms
Explains how to break down a penalty made up of three distinct penalties into periods: the lightest becomes the minimum period, the next the medium, and the most severe the maximum. When the prescribed penalty does not match a form already set out in the Code, courts distribute the periods by analogy to those existing rules.
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