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    The document discusses the crime of slight physical injuries according to Philippine law. It defines three types of slight physical injuries: 1) injuries that incapacitate a person from work for 1-9 days or require medical attention, 2) injuries that do not prevent normal work or require attention, and 3) ill-treatment without injury. An injury that prevents work for 9 days and some hours but not 10 days is considered slight. If the original charges were for slight injury but the investigation found a longer recovery time, additional charges can be made. Ill-treatment includes any physical violence without injury, such as slapping.

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    The document discusses the crime of slight physical injuries according to Philippine law. It defines three types of slight physical injuries: 1) injuries that incapacitate a person from work for 1-9 days or require medical attention, 2) injuries that do not prevent normal work or require attention, and 3) ill-treatment without injury. An injury that prevents work for 9 days and some hours but not 10 days is considered slight. If the original charges were for slight injury but the investigation found a longer recovery time, additional charges can be made. Ill-treatment includes any physical violence without injury, such as slapping.

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    The document discusses the crime of slight physical injuries according to Philippine law. It defines three types of slight physical injuries: 1) injuries that incapacitate a person from work for 1-9 days or require medical attention, 2) injuries that do not prevent normal work or require attention, and 3) ill-treatment without injury. An injury that prevents work for 9 days and some hours but not 10 days is considered slight. If the original charges were for slight injury but the investigation found a longer recovery time, additional charges can be made. Ill-treatment includes any physical violence without injury, such as slapping.

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    The document discusses the crime of slight physical injuries according to Philippine law. It defines three types of slight physical injuries: 1) injuries that incapacitate a person from work for 1-9 days or require medical attention, 2) injuries that do not prevent normal work or require attention, and 3) ill-treatment without injury. An injury that prevents work for 9 days and some hours but not 10 days is considered slight. If the original charges were for slight injury but the investigation found a longer recovery time, additional charges can be made. Ill-treatment includes any physical violence without injury, such as slapping.

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    Slight Physical Injuries


    Crimes Against Persons 0 Comments

    Art. 266.  Slight physical injuries and maltreatment.  — The crime of slight physical
    injuries shall be punished:  

    1. By arresto menor when the offender has inflicted physical injuries which shall
    incapacitate the offended party for labor from one to nine days, or shall require
    medical attendance during the same period.  

    2. By arresto menor or a fine not exceeding 20 pesos and censure when the offender
    has caused physical injuries which do not prevent the offended party from engaging
    in his habitual work nor require medical assistance.  

    3. By arresto menor in its minimum period or a fine not exceeding 50 pesos when the
    offender shall ill-treat another by deed without causing any injury.  (Revised Penal
    Code)

    Three kinds of slight physical injuries: 

    1. Physical injuries which incapacitated the offended party for labor from 1 to 9days
    or required medical attendance during the same period; 
    2. Physical injuries which do not prevent the offended party from engaging in
    his habitual work or which did not require medical attendance; 
    3. Ill-treatment of another by deed without causing any injury.

    ● A physical injury which incapacitates the offended party from working for 9 days and
    some hours without amounting to 10 days, is a slight physical injury.

    ● In the absence of evidence to show actual injury, as when the deceased died of other
    causes and there is no evidence as to how many days the deceased lived after the injury,
    the crime is only slight physical injury, it appearing that the wounds inflicted by the
    accused could not have caused death.

    ● Where the original information was for slight physical injuries, in the belief of the fiscal
    that the wound suffered by the accused would heal after 8 days but in the preliminary
    investigation conducted by the justice of the peace, it was found that the wound would
    heal after 30 days, the act which converted the crime into a more serious one had

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    SUPERVENED after the filing of the original information, this supervening event can still
    be the subject of AMENDMENT or of a NEW CHARGE without necessarily placing the
    accused in double jeopardy. 

    ● The jurisdiction of the RTC by virtue of the appeal is limited to the crime object of the
    judgment, from which the appeal has been taken. It has no jurisdiction to impose a
    sentence on the accused, on appeal from the MTC over which the MTC has no
    jurisdiction. (People vs. Aquino, 71 Phil 143)

    ● Ill-treatment is committed by the inflicting of pain although there is no wound.


    Example: slapping the face of a person.

    ● Any physical violence which does not produce injury, such as slapping the face of the
    offended party, without causing dishonor, is slight physical injury.

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