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Act No. 3815 (The Revised Penal Code) Article 248

Act No. 3815 (The Revised Penal Code) Article 248

Murder.

Article 248

ART. 248. Murder.—Any person who, not falling within the provisions of article 246 shall kill another, shall be guilty of murder and shall be punished by reclusion temporal in its maximum period to death, if committed with any of the following attendant circumstances: With treachery, taking advantage of superior strength, with the aid of armed men, or employing means to weaken the defense or of means or persons to insure or afford impunity. In consideration of a price, reward or promise. By means of inundation, fire, poison, explosion, shipwreck, stranding of a vessel, derailment or assault upon a street car or locomotive, fall of an airship, by means of motor vehicles, or with the use of any other means involving great waste and ruin. On occasion of any of the calamities enumerated in the preceding paragraph, or of an earthquake, eruption of a volcano, destructive cyclone, epidemic, or any other public calamity. With evident premeditation. With cruelty, by deliberately and inhumanly augmenting the suffering of the victim, or outraging or scoffing at his person or corpse.

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CitationAct No. 3815 (The Revised Penal Code) Article 248 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

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