Jurisprudence B.E Questions

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1. Berto, with evident premeditation and treachery killed his father.

What was the crime committed?

A. Murder

B. Parricide

C. Homicide

D. QualifiedHomicide

Answer: B

2. PO3 Bagsik entered the dwelling of Totoy against the latters will

on suspicion that Bitoy keep unlicensed firearms

in his home. What was the crime committed by PO3 Bagsik?

A. Trespass to Dwelling

B. Violation of Domicile

C. Usurpation Of Authority

D. Forcible

TrespassingAnswer: B

3. Charlie and Lea had been married for more than 6 months.They

live together with the children of Lea from her first husband.

Charlie had sexual relation with Jane, the 14 year old daughter of

Lea.Jane loves Charlie very much.What was the crime committed

by Charlie?

A. Simple Seduction

B. Qualified Seduction

C. Consented Abduction

D. RapeAnswer: B

4. Prof. Jose gave a failing grade to one of his students, Lito. When

the two met the following day, Lito slapped

Prof. Jose on the face. What was the crime committed by Lito?

A. Corruption of Public Officials

B. Direct Assault

C. Slight Physical Injuries

D. Grave

Coercion

Answer: B

5. A warrant of arrest was issued against Fred for the killing of his

parents. When PO2 Tapang tried to arrest him,Fred gave him 1

million pesos to set him free. PO2 Tapang refrained in arresting

Fred. What was the crime committed by PO2 Tapang?

A. Indirect Bribery

B. Direct Bribery


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C. Corruption of Public Officials

D. Qualified

Bribery

Answer: D

6. Which of the following is the exemption to the hearsy rule madeunder the consciousness of an impending death?

A. Parol Evidence

B. Ante mortem statement

C. Suicide note

D. Dead man statute

Answer: D

7. Factum probans means __.

A. preponderance of evidence

B. ultimate fact

C. evidentiary factD. sufficiency of

evidence

Answer: C

8. It refers to family history or descent transmitted from one

generation to another.

A. inheritance

B. heritage

C. pedigree

D. culture

Answer: C

9. The authority of the court to take cognizance of the case in the

first instance.

A. Appellate Jurisdiction

B. General Jurisdiction

C. Original Jurisdiction

D. Exclusive

Jurisdiction

Answer: C

10.A person designated by the court to assist destitute litigants.A. Counsel de officio

B. Attorney on record

C. Attorney at law

D. Special counsel Answer:

A

11. Which of the following is not covered by the Rules on Summary


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Procedure?

A. Violation of rental laws

B. Violation of traffic laws

C. The penalty is more than six months of imprisonment

D. The penalty does not exceed six months

imprisonment Answer: C

12. It refers to a territorial unit where the power of the court is to

be exercised.

A. jurisdiction

B. jurisprudence

C. venue

D. bench

Answer: C

13.The Anti-Bouncing Check Law.

A. RA 6425B. RA 8353

C. BP.22

D. RA 6975 Answer:

C

14. The taking of another persons personal property, with intent to

gain, by means of force and intimidation.

A. qualified theft

B. robbery

C. theft

D. maliciousmischief

Answer: B

15. Felony committed when a person compels another by means of

force, violence or intimidation to do something against his will,

whether right or wrong.

A. grave threat

B. grave coercion

C. direct assault

D. slander by

deedAnswer: B

16. These are persons having no apparent means of subsistence but

have the physical ability to work and neglect to apply himself or

herself to lawful calling.

A. Pimps

B. prostitutes


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C. gang members

D. vagrants

Answer: D

17. A medley of discordant voices, a mock serenade of discordant

noises designed to annoy and insult.A. Tumultuous

B. charivari

C. sedition

D. scandal

Answer: B

18. The unauthorized act of a public officer who compels another

person to change his residence.

A. violation of domicile

B. arbitrary detention

C. expulsionD. direct

assault

Answer: C

19. The deprivation of a private person of the liberty of another

person without legal grounds.

A. illegal detention


C. forcible abduction

D. forcible

detentionAnswer: A

20. An offense committed by a married woman through carnal

knowledge with a man not her husband who knows her to be

married, although the marriage can be later declared void.

A. concubinage

B. bigamy

C. adultery

D. immorality

Answer: C

21. Age of absolute irresponsibility in the commission of a crime.

A. 15-18 years old

B. 18-70 years old

C. 9 years old and below

D. between 9 and 15 years

old Answer:

C


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22. Those who, not being principals cooperate in the execution of

the offense by previous or simultaneous acts.

A. Accomplices

B. Suspects

C. principal actorsD. accessories

Answer: A

23. The loss or forfeiture of the right of the government to execute

the final sentence after the lapse of a certaintime fixed by law.

A. prescription of crime

B. prescription of prosecution

C. prescription of judgement

D. prescription of

penalty

Answer: D

24. A kind of executive clemency whereby the execution of penalty

is suspended.

A. Pardon

B. commutation

C. amnesty

D. reprieve

Answer: D

25. Infractions of mere rules of convenience designed to secure a

more orderly regulation of the affairs of the society.A. mala prohibita

B. mala in se

C. private crimes

D. public

crimes

Answer: A

26. Felony committed by a public officer who agrees to commit an

act in consideration of a gift and this act is connected with the

discharge of his public duties.

A. qualified briberyB. direct bribery

C. estafa

D. indirect bribery

Answer: B

27. The willful and corrupt

assertion of falsehood under oath of

affirmation, administered by authority of law on a material matter.


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A. libel

B. falsification

C. perjury

D. slander

Answer: C

28. Deliberate planning of act before execution.

A. Treachery

B. evident premeditation

C. ignominy

D. cruelty

Answer: B

29. Whenever more than 3 armed malefactors shall have acted

together in the commission of a crime.

A. gang

B. conspiracyC. band

D. piracy

Answer: C

30. The failure to perform a positive duty which one is bound to.

A. Negligence

B. imprudence

C. omission

D. act

Answer: C

31. Ways and means are employed for the purpose of trapping and

capturing the law breaker in the execution of his criminal plan.

A. Misfeasance

B. entrapment

C. inducement

D. instigation

Answer: B

32. Those where the act committed is a crime but for reasons of

public policy and sentiment there is no penalty imposed.

A. impossible crimesB. aggravating circumstances

C. absolutory causes

D. Complex Crimes

Answer: C

33. One of the following is an alternative circumstance.

A. Insanity


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B. intoxication

C. passion or obfuscation

D. evident

premeditation

Answer: B

34. If the accused refuse to plead, or make conditional plea of guilty,

what shall be entered for him?

A. a plea of not guilty

B. a plea of guilty

C. a plea of mercy

D. a plea of

surrender

Answer: A

35. At what time may the accused move to quash the complaint or

information?A. at any time before his arrest

B. only after entering his plea

C. any time before entering his plea

D. Monday morning

Answer: C

36. The process whereby the accused and the prosecutor in a

criminal case work out a mutually satisfactory

disposition on the case subject to court approval.

A. Arraignment

B. plea bargainingC. preliminary investigation

D. trial

Answer: B

37. The security given for the release of a person in custody,

furnished by him or a bondsman, conditioned upon his

appearance before any court as required under the conditions

specified by law.

A. Subpoena

B. recognizance

C. bailD. warrant

Answer: C

38. The examination before a competent tribunal, according to the

laws of the land, of the acts in issue in a case, for the purpose

of determining such issue.

A. Trial


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B. Arraignment

C. pre-trial

D. judgment

Answer:

A

39. The adjudication by the court that the accused is guilty or is notguilty of the offense charged, and the imposition of the proper

penalty and

A. trial

B. Pre-trial

C. Arraignment

D. Judgment

Answer: D

40. It is an inquiry or proceeding for the purpose of determining

whether there is sufficient ground to engender a well founded

belief that an offense has been committed and the offender isprobably guilty thereof and should be held for trial.

A. pre-trial

B. arraignment

C. preliminary investigation

D. plea

bargaining

Answer: C

41. It is evidence of the same kind and to the same state of facts.

A. secondary evidence

B. prima facie evidenceC. corroborative evidence

D. best

evidence

Answer: C

42. It is that which, standing alone, unexplained or uncontradicted is

sufficient to maintain the proposition affirmed.

A. secondary evidence

B. prima facie evidence

C. corroborative evidence

D. bestevidence

Answer: B

43. A form of evidence supplied by written instruments or derived

from conventional symbols, such as letters, by

which ideas are represented on material substances.

A. documentary evidence


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B. testimonial evidence

C. material evidence

D. real evidence

Answer: A

44. When the witness states that he did not see or know theoccurrence of a fact.

A. positive evidence

B. corroborative evidence

C. secondary evidence

D. negative

evidence

Answer: D

45. Personal property that can be subjects for search and seizure.

A. used or intended to be used as means in committing an

offenseB. stolen or embezzled and other proceeds or fruits of the

offense

C. subject of the offense

D. all of the

above

Answer: D

46. All persons who can perceive and perceiving, can make known

their perception to others.

A. Suspects

B. witnessesC. victims

D. informers

Answer: B

47. The unlawful destruction or the bringing forth prematurely, of

human fetus before the natural time of birth which results in

death.

A. abortion

B. infanticide

C. murder

D. parricideAnswer: A

48. Felony committed when a person is killed or wounded during the

confusion attendant to a quarrel among several persons not

organized into groups and the parties responsible cannot be

ascertained.

A. alarm and scandal


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B. mysterious homicide

C. death under exceptional circumstances

D. tumultuous affray

Answer: D

49. A question which arises in a case the resolution of which is thelogical antecedent of the issue involved in said case and the

cognizance of which pertains to another tribunal.

A. legal question

B. juridical question

C. prejudicial question

D. judicial

question

Answer: C

50. The RPC was based on the

A. Spanish penal codeB. English penal code

C. American penal code

D. Japanese penal code

Answer: A

51. An act or omission which is a result of a misapprehension of facts

that is voluntary but not intentional.

A. impossible crime

B. mistake of facts

C. accidental crime

D. complexcrime

Answer: B

52. Infanticide is committed by killing a child not more than.

A. 36 hours

B. 24 hours

C. 48 hours

D. 72 hours

Answer: D

53. Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance therewith.A. ignorantia legis non excusat

B. parens patriae

C. res ipsa loquitur

D. dura lex sed lex

Answer: A

54. An act which would be an offense against persons or property if

it was not for the inherent impossibility of its accomplishment.


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A. compound crime

B. impossible crime

C. complex crime

D. accidental

crime

Answer: B

55. The law which reimposed thedeath penalty.

A. RA 5425

B. RA 8553

C. RA 7659

D. RA 8551

Answer: C

56. One who is deprived completely of reason or discernment and

freedom of the will at the time of the commission of the crime.

A. discernment

B. insanityC. epilepsy

D. imbecility

Answer: D

57. The quality by which an act may be subscribed to a person as its

owner or author

A. responsibility

B. duty

C. guilt

D. imputability

Answer: D

58. Something that happen outside the sway of our will, and

although it comes about through some acts of our will,

lies beyond the bound s of humanly foreseeable consequences.

A. fortuitous event

B. fate

C. accident

D. destiny

Answer: C

59. A sworn written statement charging a person with anoffense,subscribed by the offended party, any peace

officer or other public officer charged with the enforcement of

the law violated.

A. subpoena

B. information

C. complaint

D. writ


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Answer: C

60. This right of the accused is founded on the principle of justice

and is intended not to protect the guilty but to prevent as far as

human agencies can the conviction of an innocent person.

A. right to due process of lawB. presumption of innocence

C. right to remain silent

D. right against self-

incrimination A

nswer: B

61. Known in other countries as the body of principles,

practices,usages and rules of action which are not

recognized in our country.

A. penal laws

B. special lawsC. common laws

D. statutory

laws

Answer: C

62. Circumstances wherein there is an absence in the agent of the

crime any of all the conditions that would make

an act voluntary and hence, though there is no criminal liability

there is civil liability.

A. Exempting

B. alternativeC. justifying

D. aggravating

Answer: A

63. Circumstances wherein the acts of the person are in accordance

with the law, and hence, he incurs no criminal and civil liability.

A. exempting

B. alternative

C. justifying

D. aggravating

Answer: C

64. When the offender enjoys and delights in making his victim

suffers slowly and gradually, causing him unnecessary physical

pain in the consummation of the criminal act.

A. Ignominy

B. cruelty

C. treachery


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D. masochism

Answer: B

65. One, who at the time of his trial for one crime shall have been

previously convicted by final judgment of another crime embraced

in the same title of the Revised Penal Code.A. Recidivism

B. habitual delinquency

C. reiteracion

D. quasi-

recidivism

Answer: A

66. Alevosia means

A. Craft

B. treachery

C. evident premeditationD. cruelty

Answer: B

67. The law hears before it condemns, proceeds upon inquiry and

render judgment after a fair trial.

A. ex post facto law

B. equal protection of the law

C. rule of law

D. due process of

law

Answer: D

68. A person if within a period of 10 years from the date of his

release or last conviction of the crime of serious or less serious

physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa or falsification, he is

found guilty of any of the said crimes a third time or oftener.

A. Recidivist

B. quasi-recidivist

C. habitual delinquent

D. hardened

criminal

Answer: C

69. A kind of evidence which cannot be rebutted or overcome.

A. Primary

B. Best

C. Secondary

D. Conclusive

Answer: D


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70. A kind of evidence which cannot be rebutted or overcome.

A. Primary

B. Best

C. Secondary

D. ConclusiveAnswer: D

71. These questions suggest to the witness the answers to which an

examining party requires.

A. leading

B. misleading

C. stupid

D. hearsay

Answer: A

72. A method fixed by law for the apprehension and prosecution ofpersons alleged to have committed a crime, and

or their punishment in case of conviction

A. Criminal Law

B. Criminal Evidence

C. Criminal Procedure

D. Criminal Jurisprudence

Answer: C

73. The period of prescription of crimes punishable by death.

A. 20 years

B. 15 yearsC. 10 years

D. 40

years

Answer: A

74. Persons who take direct part in the execution of a crime.

A. Accomplices

B. Accessories

C. Instigators

D. Principals

Answer: D

75. A crime against honor which is committed by performing any act

which casts dishonor, discredit, or contempt upon another

person.

A. libel

B. slander by deed

C. incriminating innocent person


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D. intriguing against

honor Ans

wer: B

76. The improper performance of some act which might lawfully be

done.A. misfeasance

B. malfeasance

C. nonfeasance

D. dereliction

Answer: B

77. Asworn statementin writing, made upon oath before an

authorized magistrate or officer.

A. subpoena

B. writ

C. warrantD. affidavit

Answer: D

78. Any other name which a person publicly applies to himself

without authority of law.

A. alias

B. common name

C. fictitious name

D. screen name

Answer: C

79. A special aggravating circumstance where a person, after having

been convicted by final judgment, shall commit a new felony

before beginning to serve such sentence, or while serving

the same.

A. quasi-recidivism

B. recidivism

C. reiteracion

D. charivari

Answer: A

80. Which of the following is not a person in authority?A. Municipal mayor

B. PrivateSchoolTeacher

C. Police Officer

D. Municipal

Councilor

Answer: C


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81. In its general sense, it is the raising of commotions or

disturbances in the State.

A. Sedition

B. Rebellion

C. Treason

D. Coup detat

Answer: A

82. The length of validity of a search warrant from its date.

A. 30 days

B. 15 days

C. 10 days

D. 60

days

Answer: C

83. The detention of a person without legal grounds by a public

officer or employee.

A. illegal detention


C. compulsory detention

D. unauthorized

detention

Answer: B

84. A breach of allegiance to a government, committed by a person

who owes allegiance to it.A. treason

B. espionage

C. rebellion

D. coup d

etat

Answer: A

85. A building or structure, exclusively used for rest and comfort.

A. sanctuary

B. prison

C. jailD. dwelling

Answer: D

86. The mental capacity to understand the difference between right

and wrong.

A. treachery

B. premeditation


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C. recidivism

D. discernment

Answer: D

87. Conspiracy to commit this felony is punishable under the law.

A. EstafaB. Murder

C. Rebellion

D. Rape

Answer: C

88. It means that the resulting injury is greater than that which is

intended.

A. Aberratio ictus

B. Error in personae

C. Dura Lex Sed lex

D. PraeterIntentionem

Answer: D

89. It means mistake in the blow.

A. Aberratio Ictus

B. Error in Personae

C. Dura lex sed lex

D. Praeter

Intentionem

Answer: A

90. A stage of execution when all the elements necessary for its

execution and accomplishment are present.

A. Attempted

B. Frustrated

C. Consummated

D. Accomplished

answer:

C

91. An act or omission which is the result of a misapprehension of

facts that is voluntary but not intentional.

A. Absolutory CauseB. Mistake of facts

C. Conspiracy

D. Felony

Answer: B

92. Crimes that have three stages of execution.

A. Material


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B. Formal

C. Seasonal

D. Continuing

Answer: A

93. Felonies where the acts or omissions of the offender aremalicious.

A. Culpable

B. Intentional

C. Deliberate

D. Inculpable

Answer: B

94. It indicates deficiency of perception.

A. Negligence

B. Diligence

C. ImprudenceD. Inference

Answer: A

95. Acts and omissions punishable by special penal laws.

A. Offenses

B. Misdemeanors

C. Felonies

D. Ordinances

Answer:

A

96. A character of Criminal Law, making it binding upon all personswho live or sojourn in the Philippines.

A. General

B. Territorial

C. Prospective

D. Retroactive

Answer: A

97. A legislative act which inflicts punishment without judicial trial.

A. Bill of Attainder

B. Bill of Rights

C. Ex Post Facto LawD. Penal Law

Answer: A

98. The taking of a person into custody in order that he may be

bound to answer for the commission of an offense.

A. Search

B. Seizure


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C. Arrest

D. Detention

Answer: C

99. Pedro stole the cow of Juan. What was the crime committed?

A. RobberyB. Farm Theft

C. Qualified Theft

D. Simple

Theft

Answer: C

100.Pedro, a 19 year old man had sexual intercourse with her 11 year

old girlfriend without threat, force or intimidation. What was

the crime committed?

A. Child rape

B. Qualified RapeC. Statutory Rape

D. None of

these

Answer: C

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