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Title One
FELONIES AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH AFFECT CRIMINAL LIABILITY
CHAPTER ONE
Felonies
ARTICLE 8. Conspiracy and proposal to commit felony.
— Conspiracy and proposal to commit felony are punishable only in the cases in which the law specially provides a penalty therefor.
A conspiracy exists when two or more persons come to an agreement concerning the commission of a felony and decide to commit it.
There is proposal when the person who has decided to commit a felony proposes its execution to some other person or persons.
Title Two
PERSONS CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR FELONIES
ARTICLE 16. Who are criminally liable.
— The following are criminally liable for grave and less grave felonies :
1. Principals.
2. Accomplices.
3. Accessories.
The following are criminally liable for light felonies :
1. Principals.
2. Accomplices.
ARTICLE 17. Principals.
— The following are considered principals :
1. Those who take a direct part in the execution of the act ;
2. Those who directly force or induce others to commit it ;
3. Those who cooperate in the commission of the offense by another act without which it would not have been accomplished.
ARTICLE 18. Accomplices.
— Accomplices are those persons who, not being included in article 17, cooperate in the execution of the offense by previous or simultaneous acts.
ARTICLE 19. Accessories.
— Accessories are those who, having knowledge of the commission of the crime, and without having participated therein, either as principals or accomplices, take part subsequent to its commission in any of the following manners :
1. By profiting themselves or assisting the offender to profit by the effects of the crime.
2. By concealing or destroying the body of the crime, or the effects or instruments thereof, in order to prevent its discovery.
3. By harboring, concealing, or assisting in the escape of the principal of the crime, provided the accessory acts with abuse of his public functions or whenever the author of the crime is guilty of treason, parricide, murder, or an attempt to take the life of the Chief Executive, or is known to be habitually guilty of some other crime.
ARTICLE 20. Accessories who are exempt from criminal liability.
— The penalties prescribed for accessories shall not be imposed upon those who are such with respect to their spouses, ascendants, descendants, legitimate, natural, and adopted brothers and sisters, or relatives by affinity within the same degrees, with the single exception of accessories falling within the provisions of paragraph 1 of the next preceding article.
Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible.