1. PARRICIDE; INVOLUNTARY ACTS OF ACCUSED; EXEMPTION FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY. —By virtue of the facts stated in the decision, Held: That the defendant acted while in a dream of his acts, with which he is charged, were not voluntary in the sense of entailing criminal liability.

Potenciano Taneo lived with his wife in his parent’s house in the barrio of Dolores, municipality of Ormoc, Leyte. On January 16, 1932, a fiesta was being celebrated in the said barrio and visitors were entertained in the house. Among them were Fred Tanner and Luis Malinao. Early that afternoon, Potenciano Taneo, went to sleep and while sleeping, he suddenly got up, left the room bolo in hand and, upon meeting his wife who tried to stop him, he wounded her in the abdomen. Potenciano Taneo attacked Fred Tanner and Luis Malinao and tried to attack his father after which he wounded himself. Potenciano’s wife who was then seven months pregnant, died five days later as a result of her wound, and also the f