Analysis of the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court on the crime of illegal exactions

Abstract

Until the present moment there is a high number of contributions on the crime of illegal ex -exctions, which address various aspects about it from the perspective of the most recent right. Our objective in this article is focused on analyzing the interpretations carried out by the Supreme Court to its regulation in the different nineteenth -century criminal codes, with special attention to the 1870, since since then the fundamental lines that last until today were set. Thus, the 1869 Constitution considered that this crime committed any public official who tried to demand or demand the payment of a contribution that would not have been voted by the Courts or the popular corporations, legally authorized to impose it. Such behaviors were typified in articles 223 to 227 of the new code of 1870. Together with the previous rights that the public official had indicated.