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Ramon F. Sayson vs. PEOPLE., etal.

RAMON F. SAYSON, petitioner, vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES and the HON. COURT OF APPEALS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-51745 | 1988-10-28

D E C I S I O N


CORTES, J.:

Petitioner seeks the reversal of the Court of Appeals decision finding him guilty of attempted estafa.

On March 25, 1972, an information for the crime of Estafa through Falsification of a Commercial Document was filed against the herein petitioner, Ramon F. Sayson, before the Court of First Instance of Manila, the pertinent portion of which reads:

. . . the said accused having come in possession of a blank US dollar check #605908142, with intent to defraud Ernesto Rufino, Sr. and/or Bank of America, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously forge and falsify or cause to be forged and falsified...