Article 94: Offences excluded from penalty increase
Statutory text (Thai original)
ความผิดอันได้กระทำโดยประมาท ความผิดลหุโทษ และความผิดซึ่งผู้กระทำได้กระทำในขณะที่มีอายุต่ำกว่าสิบแปดปีนั้น ไม่ว่าจะได้กระทำในครั้งก่อนหรือครั้งหลัง ไม่ถือว่าเป็นความผิดเพื่อการเพิ่มโทษตามความในหมวดนี้
English translation
An offence committed by negligence, a petty offence, and an offence committed by the offender while under eighteen years of age, whether it is the earlier offence or the later offence, shall not be regarded as an offence for the purpose of increasing punishment under the provisions of this Chapter.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 94 is the limiting rule for the recidivism chapter, qualifying both Section 92 (one-third increase) and Section 93 (one-half increase). It removes three categories from the enhancement calculus regardless of whether they are the prior or the current offence: negligent offences, petty offences, and offences committed while under eighteen. The rationale is that these offences reflect neither the deliberate persistence nor the mature culpability that the enhancement targets. In practice this means a prior conviction that looks like a basis for increase must first be tested against Section 94, and a prior record made up only of excluded offences cannot support any increase at all. It does not affect conviction, only the enhancement of punishment.
Why this matters in practice
Section 94 is a direct defence to an enhancement request: if the prior conviction the prosecution relies on was a negligent offence, a petty offence, or an offence you committed before turning eighteen, it cannot be used to raise your sentence under Section 92 or 93. It is worth checking the exact nature and your age at the time of any prior offence the prosecution cites, because an improper enhancement is a correctable error even on appeal. The exclusion is about punishment only, so the prior record may still appear for other purposes. If a prior conviction is being used against you, a lawyer can test whether Section 94 blocks the increase; you can consult a Thai lawyer online.
Décisions de la Cour suprême interprétant cette section
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 8970/2561 (2018)
An offence committed while the defendant was under eighteen cannot be used to increase punishment under Section 94, so an enhancement based on such a prior offence is unlawful.
The prior conviction the prosecution relied on was committed when the defendant was about fourteen. Because an offence committed while under eighteen is not counted for enhancement under Section 94, the Supreme Court held the lower courts' increase of the sentence to be unlawful.
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 6905/2562 (2019)
The offence of carrying a weapon in a public place is a petty offence, which under Section 94 cannot attract an increase of punishment.
Among several convictions, the court treated carrying a weapon in a public place as a petty offence and, applying Section 94, held that no increase of punishment could be imposed for that count.
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 3098/2566 (2023)
Because both the present and the earlier case were petty offences, Section 94 bars using the prior record to increase punishment, although fingerprinting for investigation remains lawful for other purposes.
The court noted that the current and prior offences were petty offences, so Section 94 prevented using the prior record to increase the punishment. It added that fingerprinting was still lawful as part of investigation and not solely for enhancement.
Curated decisions with case numbers verified against the Supreme Court database. English renderings are the firm's editorial translation for study.
Cited in 9 Supreme Court decisions (1957 to 2023)
Décisions de citation sélectionnées
- Décision 3098/2566 (2023)
- Decision 6664/2559 (2016)
- Decision 1641/2524 (1981)
- Decision 309/2500 (1957)
- Decision 8970/2561 (2018)
- Decision 989/2514 (1971)
- Decision 2673/2527 (1984)
- Decision 6905/2562 (2019)
Cette liste est sélectionnée automatiquement, en privilégiant les jugements qui reposent sur cet article plutôt que sur ceux qui se contentent de le citer lors du prononcé de la peine. Elle n'a pas encore été examinée par le cabinet.
Le plus souvent cité aux côtés de
- Article 92 5
- Article 93 3
- Article 29 3
- Article 30 3
- Article 78 3
- Section 3 3
Sections qui apparaissent le plus souvent dans les mêmes jugements que celui-ci. Le chiffre correspond au nombre de décisions.
Calculé sur l'ensemble du corpus de 83 652 décisions de la Cour suprême du cabinet, de 1921 à 2026. Le décompte est exhaustif ; la plage d'années indiquée élimine les valeurs aberrantes rares afin de refléter la répartition réelle des citations. Ces chiffres sont calculés par nos soins et ne constituent pas des statistiques officielles de la Cour. Comment nous les comptons et ce que nous avons mesuré
Foire aux questions
Une infraction mineure peut-elle servir à alourdir ma peine ?
Non. En vertu de l'article 94, une infraction mineure ne peut être comptabilisée, que ce soit comme infraction antérieure ou actuelle, aux fins d'augmenter la peine en vertu des articles 92 et 93.
Une infraction que j'ai commise alors que j'étais mineur est-elle prise en compte pour une aggravation de peine ?
Non. L'article 94 prévoit qu'une infraction commise alors qu'on est âgé de moins de dix-huit ans n'est pas considérée comme une infraction justifiant une peine plus lourde en vertu des règles relatives à la récidive.
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