Short answer. Only in the narrow situation the Code provides for. Article 89 does list the marriage of the offended woman among the ways criminal liability is totally extinguished, but it operates only as provided in a separate provision, which confines it to particular offences and to conditions set by law.
What the law says
By the marriage of the offended woman
Revised Penal Code, Article 89 — How Criminal Liability Is Extinguished. Read the full provision →
What the law says
Criminal liability is totally extinguished
Revised Penal Code, Article 89 — How Criminal Liability Is Extinguished. Read the full provision →
Where it appears in the Code
Article 89 is the list of ways in which criminal liability is totally extinguished — death of the convict, service of the sentence, amnesty, absolute pardon, prescription of the crime, prescription of the penalty, and last on the list, by the marriage of the offended woman. Because it sits among those, the effect where it does apply is total extinction rather than a mere suspension or a reduction. That is exactly why the entry is so tightly qualified, and why the qualification, not the headline, is the part that decides any actual case.
The qualifier is the whole rule
The item does not stand alone. Article 89 states it as operating only as provided in another provision of the Code, and that other provision — not this list — is what identifies which offences it can touch and on what terms. The consequence for a reader is direct: the entry in Article 89 tells you the mode exists; it does not tell you whether it is available in your case. Nothing can be concluded from this article by itself, and anyone relying on it without reading the provision it defers to is relying on a fragment.
What it is not
It is not a general rule that marrying ends any case involving a woman, and it does not reach offences outside the class the Code assigns to it. Nor is it something the parties can simply agree between themselves and file: extinction of criminal liability is a consequence the law attaches to a defined set of facts, not a settlement the complainant grants. Where an offence falls outside the class, a marriage changes nothing about the prosecution, however the parties feel about proceeding. The offence charged in the information is what determines the question.
If this is being raised in a live case
Whichever side you are on, the first document to obtain is the information, because the offence it charges decides whether the mode is even in play. If you are the complainant, understand before anything else that this is a step with permanent consequences for the case and possibly for your own position, and that pressure to take it is itself something to raise with counsel. If you are the accused, the availability of the mode is a legal question for your lawyer, not an assumption to act on.
Related provisions
- Revised Penal Code, Article 89 — How Criminal Liability Is Extinguished
- Revised Penal Code, Article 91 — When Prescription Starts Running