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    The accused came home drunk and angry, arguing with his father-in-law. He was seen taking out his sling and arrow as his wife was heard crying and screaming. He was later seen carrying his wife's bloodied body out of the house. The court ruled that the fatal injury to his wife's jugular vein was not accidental because the accused possessed the sling and arrow for no legal purpose but to inflict injury, as evidenced by his disappearance from his dying wife in the hospital. The court found the accused guilty of parricide and imposed the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

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    The accused came home drunk and angry, arguing with his father-in-law. He was seen taking out his sling and arrow as his wife was heard crying and screaming. He was later seen carrying his wife's bloodied body out of the house. The court ruled that the fatal injury to his wife's jugular vein was not accidental because the accused possessed the sling and arrow for no legal purpose but to inflict injury, as evidenced by his disappearance from his dying wife in the hospital. The court found the accused guilty of parricide and imposed the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

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    The accused came home drunk and angry, arguing with his father-in-law. He was seen taking out his sling and arrow as his wife was heard crying and screaming. He was later seen carrying his wife's bloodied body out of the house. The court ruled that the fatal injury to his wife's jugular vein was not accidental because the accused possessed the sling and arrow for no legal purpose but to inflict injury, as evidenced by his disappearance from his dying wife in the hospital. The court found the accused guilty of parricide and imposed the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

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    The accused came home drunk and angry, arguing with his father-in-law. He was seen taking out his sling and arrow as his wife was heard crying and screaming. He was later seen carrying his wife's bloodied body out of the house. The court ruled that the fatal injury to his wife's jugular vein was not accidental because the accused possessed the sling and arrow for no legal purpose but to inflict injury, as evidenced by his disappearance from his dying wife in the hospital. The court found the accused guilty of parricide and imposed the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

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    Case Digest: People of the Philippines vs.

    Isaias Castillo y Completo


    G.R. No. 172695 29 June 2007

    FACTS:

    In the evening of 5 November 1993, the accused-appellant came home drunk and angry. His
    father-in-law (Guillermo) tried to subdue him but to no avail which caused the former to leave
    the house. As he was leaving, Guillermo saw him take out his sling and arrow. Consorcia, the
    accused’s wife, was heard crying and screaming. Thereafter, the accused-appellant was seen
    carrying the bloodied body of Consorcia out of the house and was later taken to the hospital
    but to no avail. Cause of death was the cut jugular vein caused by a fatal weapon which could
    have been a “pointed instrument like a nail.”

    ISSUE:

    Whether the fatal injury inflicted on the victim was accidental

    RULING:

    The essential requisites for this exempting circumstance are (1) a person is performing a lawful
    act (2) with due care; (3) he causes and injury to another by mere accident (4) without fault or
    intention of causing it. The mere possession of sling and arrow is punishable under the law. In
    penalizing the act, the consideration of the deadly weapon was used for no legal purpose, but
    to inflict injury. Also, the fact that the accused-appellant disappeared while his wife was in the
    hospital is unbecoming of a husband with a dying wife. Due to the weakness of the defense’s
    evidence, the claim that the act was accidental cannot be appreciated in favour of the accused.
    Wherefore, the accused was found guilty of the crime of Parricide wherein the court imposed
    the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

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