Crimes against public morals

Who are the persons being punished

What acts are punishable

Who

Chapter 1 – Gambling / Betting

195 - What Acts of Gambling are Punishable

2 Types

1. Punishes the gambler

2. Person permitting where the gambling takes place
o Punishes the gambler
 Directly or indirectly takes part of the game
 Jueteng
 Monte
 Any form of lottery
 Any other game or scheme the results depends wholly on chance or hazard

Punish Persons who merely permits the gambling in any place, inhabited or uninhabited
from any building

 Building
 Uninhabited Place

196 - Importation and Sale of Lottery Tickets – Importation of Lottery tickets from Foreign Countries

 With Connivance with Importer

197 - Betting in Sports Contest – Betting for Boxing and other similar events

198 – Illegal Betting in Horse Race

199 – Illegal Cockfighting -

Chapter 2 – Offenses against Decency and Good Customs

Grave Scandal - Any scandalous conduct

Immoral Doctrines – Expounding doctrines contrary to public morals

Vagrants and Prostitutes – Defines who are vagrants and prostitutes

 No apparent means of subsistence

 Has the physical ability to work
 Neglects to apply himself the lawful calling
 Person found loitering around the streets , wandering the country without any visible means of
support
 Persons who ledges in houses of ill fame
 Prostitutes – Women who habitually engage in sexual intercourse for money