Criminology Exams (Crim Juris) – Page 3

#40. 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 real evidence
B testimonial evidence
C documentary evidence
D material evidence
Answer: documentary evidence
#41. When the witness states that he did not see or know the occurrence of a fact.
A positive evidence
B corroborative evidence
C secondary evidence
D negative evidence
Answer: negative evidence
#42. Personal property that can be subjects for search and seizure.
A subject of the offense
B stolen or embezzled and other proceeds or fruits of the offense
C used or intended to be used as means in committing an offense
D all of the above
Answer: all of the above
#43. All persons who can perceive and perceiving, can make known their perception to others.
A informers
B victims
C witnesses
D Suspects
Answer: witnesses
#44. The unlawful destruction or the bringing forth prematurely, of human fetus before the natural time of birth which results in death.
A abortion
B parricide
C murder
D infanticide
Answer: abortion
#45. 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 mysterious homicide
B death under exceptional circumstances
C alarm and scandal
D tumultuous affray
Answer: death under exceptional circumstances
#46. A question which arises in a case the resolution of which is the logical antecedent of the issue involved in said case and the cognizance of which pertains to another tribunal.
A juridical question
B legal question
C judicial question
D prejudicial question
Answer: prejudicial question
#47. The RPC was based on the
A Japanese penal code
B American penal code
C English penal code
D Spanish penal code
Answer: Spanish penal code
#48. An act or omission which is a result of a misapprehension of facts that is voluntary but not intentional.
A mistake of facts
B impossible crime
C accidental crime
D complex crime
Answer: mistake of facts
#49. Infanticide is committed by killing a child not more than….
A 48 hours
B 72 hours
C 24 hours
D 36 hours
Answer: 72 hours
#50. Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance therewith.
A parens patriae
B ignorantia legis non excusat
C res ipsa loquitur
D dura lex sed lex
Answer: ignorantia legis non excusat
#51. An act which would be an offense against persons or property if it was not for the inherent impossibility of its accomplishment.
A complex crime
B impossible crime
C accidental crime
D compound crime
Answer: impossible crime
#52. The law which reimposed the death penalty.
A RA 8553
B RA 7659
C RA 5425
D RA 8551
Answer: RA 7659
#53. 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 insanity
C epilepsy
D imbecility
Answer: imbecility
#54. The quality by which an act may be subscribed to a person as its owner or author
A responsibility
B duty
C imputability
D guilt
Answer: imputability
#55. 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 fate
B fortuitous event
C destiny
D accident
Answer: accident
#56. A sworn written statement charging a person with an offense,subscribed by the offended party, any peace officer or other public officer charged with the enforcement of the law violated.
A subpoena
B writ
C complaint
D information
Answer: complaint
#57. 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 against self-incrimination
B right to due process of law
C right to remain silent
D presumption of innocence
Answer: presumption of innocence
#58. 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 laws
C common laws
D statutory laws
Answer: common laws
#59. 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 justifying
B alternative
C Exempting
D aggravating
Answer: Exempting