In the presented paper, the author focuses on the study and description of the influence of Roman law, or its ideological bases, on the legal regulation of punishment through the Criminal Code in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. Author then pays special attention to the legacy of Roman law and its identification in the institutes which form the basis of the punishment mechanism, as well as the importance of this legal system for the individual basic principles on which punishment is subject in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. Finally, the author also deals with the method of punishing the so-called concurrence of criminal offenses (as a form of multiple crime), in comparison with the basic approaches that were created in the given sphere by the legal system of Roman law.