ADJUS-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Fraud, Concubinage
2 Sep 2020
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No felony shall be punishable by any penalty not prescribed by law prior to its commission. Guarantees that no act of a citizen will be considered criminal unless the state has made it so by law and provided a penalty. Except: when the penalty is favorable to the criminal. General rule: criminal laws are given prospective effects. Exception: give retroactive effect when favorable to the accused. Special law made the penalty less severe but must refer to the same deed or omission penalized by the former statute. New law may provide that its provisions not to be applied to cases already filed in court at the time of the approval of such law. The favorable retroactive effect of a new law may find the defendant in one of the 3 situations. Civil liabilities not covered by art 22 because rights of offended persons are not within the gift of arbitrary disposal of the state.
