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Aristotel Valenzuela y Natividad vs. People

ARISTOTEL VALENZUELA y NATIVIDAD, Petitioner, versus PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES and HON. COURT OF APPEALS, Respondents.

G.R. No. 160188 | 2007-06-21

D E C I S I O N 
 
 
TINGA, J.: 
 
This case aims for prime space in the firmament of our criminal law jurisprudence. Petitioner effectively concedes having performed the felonious acts imputed against him, but instead insists that as a result, he should be adjudged guilty of frustrated theft only, not the felony in its consummated stage of which he was convicted. The proposition rests on a common theory expounded in two well-known decisions[1] rendered decades ago by the Court of Appeals, upholding the existence of frustrated theft of which the accused in both cases were found guilty. However, the rationale behind the...