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Lacson vs. Court of Appeals, et al

NORMAN LACSON, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS and THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. L-46485 | 1979-11-21

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDEZ, J:

This is a petition for certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals, 1 promulgated on April 26, 1977, affirming the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Bulacan, Branch VIII, in Criminal Case No. 0429-V, entitled "People of the Philippines vs. Norman Lacson" convicting the accused, petitioner herein, of the crime of frustrated homicide penalized under Art. 249, in connection with Art. 50 of the Revised Penal Code, but declaring him entitled to the privileged mitigating circumstance of incomplete self-defense considering that two of the three requisites mentioned in Art. 11, No. 1 of the...