Criminal Law Case Digest

• US v. H. N. BULL, GR No. 5270, 1910-01-15
  Every  state has  complete  control and jurisdiction over its territorial waters.

• PEOPLE v. ROMANA SILVESTRE, GR No. 35748, 1931-12-14
  Mere passive presence at the scene of another's crime, mere  silence and  failure to give the alarm, without evidence of agreement  or conspiracy, do... not constitute the cooperation required by  article 14 of the Penal  Code for complicity  in  the commission of the crime witnessed passively, or with regard to which one has kept silent

• US v. AH CHONG, GR No. 5272, 1910-03-19
  Since evil intent is in general an  inseparable element in every crime, any  such mistake of fact as shows  the act committed to have proceeded from  no sort  of evil  in the mind necessarily relieves the actor from  criminal liability,... provided  always there is no fault or negligence  on his part;

• PEOPLE v. LYNDON FLORES, GR No. 116524, 1996-01-18

• PEOPLE v. CIRILO MAGALONA, GR No. 143294, 2003-07-17
  Where such... unlawful act is wilfully done, a mistake in the identity of the intended victim cannot be considered as reckless imprudence.[74]

Where malice or intention to cause injury exists, the act should be qualified by the felony it has produced.

• VIRGILIO TALAMPAS v. PEOPLE, GR No. 180219, 2011-11-23
  Talampas' poor aim... amounted to aberratio ictus, or mistake in the blow, a circumstance that neither exempted him from criminal responsibility nor mitigated his criminal liability.

• PEOPLE v. FRANCISCO CAGOCO, GR No. 38511, 1933-10-06

• RODEL URBANO v. PEOPLE, GR No. 182750, 2009-01-20

• SULPICIO INTOD v. CA, GR No. 103119, 1992-10-21

• MARK REYNALD MARASIGAN v. REGINALD FUENTES, GR No. 201310, 2016-01-11
  direct proof of conspiracy is not imperative and that conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the perpetrators.

a perpetrator's act of holding the victim's hand while another perpetrator is striking a blow is indicative of conspiracy