Republic Act No. 373

AN ACT INCREASING THE PENALTY IN CERTAIN CASES OF ROBBERY, BY AMENDING ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE OF THE REVISED PENAL CODE.

Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1. Article two hundred ninety-five of the Revised Penal Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

“ART. 295. Robbery with physical injuries, committed in an uninhabited place and by a band, or with the use of firearm on a street, road or alley. — If the offenses mentioned in subdivisions three, four, and five of the next preceding article shall have been committed in an uninhabited place or by a band, or by attacking a moving train, street car, street motor vehicle or airship, or by entering the passengers’ compartments in a train or, in any manner, taking the passengers thereof by surprise in the respective conveyances, or on a street, road, highway, or alley, and the intimidation is made with the use of a firearm, the offender shall be punished by the maximum period of the proper penalties.”

Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval

Approved, June 14, 1949.