Habitual Delinquency
Habitual Delinquency
Habitual Delinquency
A recidivist is one who, at the time of his trial for one crime, shall have been previously convicted by
final judgment of another crime embraced in the same title of this Code.
Under the last subsection of paragraph 5 of article 62 of he Revised Penal Code, a person shall be
deemed to be habitually delinquent, if within a period of ten years from the date of his release or last
conviction of the crime of robbery, theft, estafa, or falsification, he is found guilty of any of said crimes a
third time or oftener. Paragraph 9 of article 14 of the Revised Penal Code defines recidivism by stating
that it is committed by a person who, at the time of his trial for one crime, shall have been previously
convicted by final judgment of another crime embraced in the same title of the Code. Defining
reiteration or habituality paragraph 10 of the same article provides that it is committed when the
offender has been previously punished for an offense to which the law attaches at an equal or greater
penalty or for two or more crimes to which it attaches a lighter penalty.