立功时间要件探析

Probe into the Time Essential of Rendering Meritorious Service

正确认识立功的成立条件,是司法实践中正确认定立功,从而对有立功表现的犯罪分子准确量刑的前提。关于立功成立的时间要件,起始时间应为"犯罪分子犯罪之日起",而截止时间可以限定为"检察机关提起公诉或自诉人提起诉讼之日前",犯罪分子在审判阶段的立功行为,应作为行刑制度中的立功予以处理。

It＇s a premise that knowing rendering meritoriOus service correctly, by which rendering meritorious service can be firmly believed and then penalty is judged for offender properly. On the time essential of rendering meritorious service, it＇s verified that the starting time should be ＂the date of eriminal committing crime＂, and the closing time can be ＂the day ofprosecutorial organs initiating public prosecution or private prosecution initiating lawsuits＂, and we should regard criminal＇s behavior in trial stage as the rendering meritorious service in the stage of executing penalty.