MOCK BAR EXAMINATION QUESTIONS IN

CRIMINAL LAW
1. Which of the following has the power to define and punish crime?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

The legislative
The Chief Executive
The Supreme Court
Sandiganbayan
Trial Courts

2. Which of the following is not a limitation on the power of the legislative to enact penal laws?
a. Prohibition against Bill of Attainders or Ex-post facto law.
b. Equal Protection of the law
c. Prohibition against cruel, degrading, or inhuman punishment or imposition of
excessive fines.
d. Abridgment of the obligation of contract.
3. Which of the following is not a characteristic of penal law?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Generality
Territoriality
Prospectivity
Retroactivity when favorable to accused
Adjective or Remedial

4. Which rule on jurisdiction over crimes committed on foreign vessels while on Philippine
waters is not followed in the Philippines?
a. The French Rule The crimes are not triable in the Philippines unless the crimes
affect the peace and security, or safety of the Philippines is endangered.
b. The Anglo-American Rule or the English Rule the crimes are triable in the
Philippines unless the crimes affect merely the internal management of the vessel.
c. If the foreign vessel is a warship, Philippines Courts have no jurisdiction because a
warship is an extension of the country to which it belongs and it is not subject to the
laws of another state.
d. The Philippines Courts have jurisdiction to try continuing crimes committed in a
vessel sailing from a foreign port into Philippines waters, even if the crimes are not
punishable in the foreign country were the vessel comes from the crimes are
punishable under Philippine laws.
5. When does the repeal of penal law not extinguish crime?
a. The repeal of a law under which there is pending case against the accused at the
time of repeal.
b. The repealing law wholly fails to penalize the acts defined and penalized in the
repealing law.
c. Implied repeal or repeal by re-enactment.