Will be punished with the same penalties anyone who refrains voluntarily to bring to
a person in danger, the assistance that, without risk to him or for third parties, it
could lend him either by his personal action , either by causing a relief.
Will be punished with the same penalties the person who, knowing the proof of
innocence of a person incarcerated preventively or tried for crime or offense,
refrains voluntarily to bring as soon the testimony to the judicial authorities or the
police. However, no sentence shall be pronounced against the one who will bring his
testimony late, but spontaneously.
Are excepted from the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the guilty of the fact
which motivated his pursuit, his co-authors, his accomplices and the parents or allies
of these people . Up to the fourth degree inclusive.
ART.49. - There is no crime or offense when the accused was insane at the time of
the action, or when it was forced by a force to which he could not stand.
ART.50. - No crime, no crime can be excused, nor the sentence mixed that in cases
where the circumstances or the act declares the fact excusable or allows him to
apply a penalty less rigorous.
ART.51. - If, because of the circumstances of the personality of the offender, it is
decided that a minor over the age of thirteen years must be the subject of a criminal
conviction, the sentences will be pronounced as well as it follows:
if he has incurred the death penalty, of the work forces in perpetuity, he will be
sentenced to a penalty of ten to twenty years of imprisonment.
If he has incurred the penalty of the work forces in time of ten to twenty years, of
criminal detention for ten to twenty years or for five to ten years, he will be
sentenced to imprisonment for a
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time equal to half that which he could have been sentenced to one of these two
penalties.
If he has incurred the penalty of the civic degradation, he shall be sentenced to
imprisonment for at most two years.
ART.52. - If the offense committed by a minor over the age of thirteen years is a
crime or misdemeanour, the penalty which may be imposed against him under the
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