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PEOPLE vs. Wilfredo Llaguno, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. WILFREDO LLAGUNO, JUDY REYES @ FLORANTE REYES @ LORENZO PEDROSA and a certain "ATIS", accused, JUDY REYES @ FLORANTE REYES @ LORENZO PEDROSA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 91262 | 1998-01-28

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J:

When the information charges a complex crime and the prosecution's evidence is insufficient to support a conviction for such complex crime or for one of its component offenses, the accused may still be convicted of the other component offense which may have been sufficiently proven. Conformably, when an accused who is charged with the complex crime of kidnapping with murder is erroneously convicted of murder by the trial court, he may on appeal be relieved from his erroneous conviction but still be found liable for slight illegal detention, because the elements of the latter crime are necessarily included...