Text of the provision
Art. 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.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
Conspiracy is when two or more people agree to commit a felony and decide to carry it out; proposal is when someone who has already decided to commit a felony asks another person to execute it. Neither is punished on its own — only where the law specially provides a penalty for it.
Questions about this provision
- I asked someone to commit a crime for me and he refused — am I liable for proposing it?
- We agreed to commit a crime but never went through with it — can we be charged just for the agreement?
Related provisions
On this text. This article is reproduced as the Revised Penal Code enacted it, verified word-for-word against two independent sources. Republic Act No. 10951 (2017) revised the penalty amounts in many other articles of this Code; where an amount appears below it is the figure this article itself carries.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on this article will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.