Period of Detention Period of Detention Period of Detention

36 Hours 18 Hours 12 Hours

GRAVE FELONIES - are those in which the law LESS GRAVE FELONIES - are those in which the LIGHT FELONIES - are those infractions of law in
attaches a capital punishment or a penalty penalties in their maximum period are which the penalty is arresto menor or a fine not
which is afflictive in any of its periods. correctional. exceeding 200 pesos or both.

1. Rape 1. Sedition 1. Vagrancy

2. Treason 2. Slavery 2. Light threats

3. Infanticide 3. Arbitrary detention 3. Light coercions

4. Parricide 4. Violation of Domicile 4. Betting in sports contest

5. Murder 5. Direct Bribery 5. Illegal cockfighting

6. Homicide 6. Disloyalty of public officers or employees 6. Alteration of Boundary Marks

7. Mutilation 7. Espionage 7. Prostitution

8. Destructive Arson 8. Grave Scandal 8. Alarms and scandals

9. Qualified Bribery 9. Unintentional Abortion 9. Gambling

10. Intentional Abortion 10. Disturbance of proceeding 10. Malicious mischief (if such value does not
exceed 200 pesos)

11. Qualified Piracy 11. Forcible Abduction 11. Intriguing against honor

12. Robbery with homicide 12. Interruption of religious worship 12. Using false certificates

13. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention 13. Giving assistance to suicide 13. Slight physical injury

14. Kidnapping and failure to return minor 14. Falsification of Legislative documents 14. Slander by deed (if it is not serious in
nature)

15. Counterfeiting the great seal of the 15. Theft (the value of thing stolen is not over 5
Government of the Philippine Island 15. Flight to enemy’s country pesos, and the offender acted under the
impulse of hunger, poverty.