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PEOPLE. Vs. Yabes Gatong-O

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. YABES GATONG-O, EMILIO TAYAN AND BERT BACBAC, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 78698 | 1988-12-29

D E C I S I O N


GANCAYCO, J.:

Entrapment is the employment of such ways and means for the purpose of trapping or capturing a lawbreaker. Oftentimes it is the only effective way of apprehending a criminal in the act of the commission of the offense. In entrapment the idea to commit the crime originated from the accused. Nobody induces or prods him into committing the offense. A criminal is caught committing the act by ways and means devised by peace officers.

It must be distinguished from inducement or instigation wherein the criminal intent originates in the mind of the instigator and the accused is lured into the commission of the...