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Article 285. Other light threats. - The penalty of arresto menor in its minimum period or a fine not exceeding forty thousand pesos (P40,000) shall be imposed upon:

1. Any person who. without being included in the provisions of the next preceding article, shall threaten another with a weapon, or draw such weapon in a quarrel, unless it be in lawful self-defense.

2. Any person who, in the heat of anger, shall orally threaten another with some harm not constituting a crime, and who by subsequent acts shows that he did not persist, in the idea involved in his threat: Provided, That the circumstances of the offense shall not bring it within the provisions of Article 282 of this Code.

3. Any person who shall orally threaten to do another any harm not constituting a felony.

ACTS PUNISHABLE:
1. By threatening another with a weapon, or by drawing a weapon in a quarrel, unless it be in lawful self-defense.
2. By orally threatening another, in the heat of anger, with some harm, constituting a crime, without persisting in the idea involved in the threat.
3. By orally threatening another with harm not constituting a felony.

No demand for money or conditions involved.

The threat is not deliberate.

Under the first type, the subsequent acts of the offender must show that he did not persist in the idea involved in the threat.

If the threats are directed to a person who is absent and uttered in a temporary fit of anger, the offense is only other light threats.

Threats which are ordinarily grave threats, if made in the heat of anger, may be other light threats.