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PEOPLE vs. Fernando Gorospe

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FERNANDO GOROSPE, FELIX GOROSPE, ESPINELO GOROSPE and ANDRES GOROSPE, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 29423 | 1928-12-29

D E C I S I O N


OSTRAND, J.:

The defendants were accused of the crime of frustrated murder. It appears from the evidence that in the evening of November 6, 1926, the offended party, Vicente Mendoza, was present in the La Loma Cabaret situated in the municipality of Caloocan, Province of Rizal. Between 10 and 11 o'clock that evening, while walking from the toilet of the cabaret towards the table he had been occupying, Mendoza was struck on the right eye by an unknown person and embraced from behind by the defendants Felix, Andres and Espinelo Gorospe. While he was thus held, Felix Gorospe stabbed him in the back with a pocket-knife....