Commonwealth Act No. 273 (CA 273) — An Act to Impose a More Severe Penalty for the Crime of Theft of Large Cattle.

Commonwealth Act No. 273 · Commonwealth Act · Approved June 3, 1938 · 2 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. Article three hundred and ten of the Revised Penal Code is amended so as to read as follows: "ART. 310. Qualified theft.—The crime of theft shall be punished by the penalties next higher in degree than those respectively specified in the next preceding, article, if committed by a domestice servant, or with grave abuse of confidence, or if the property stolen consists of coconuts or fish taken from a fishpond or fishery. The maximum period of the penalty prescribed in this article shall be imposed if the property stolen is large cattle."

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved, June 3, 1938.

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