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PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

FIRST DIVISION

[G.R. No. 5516. February 16, 1910. ]

THE UNITED STATES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FRANCISCO SAMEA, Defendant-Appellant.

Aurelio Pineda, for Appellant.

Attorney-General Villamor, for Appellee.

SYLLABUS


1. HOMICIDE; CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY. —A person who cruelly maltreats one who is sick, should the latter die as a result of such maltreatment, is directly responsible for all the consequences of his criminal act. The circumstance that he did not intend to cause so serious an evil as the death of a person does not exempt him from liability, inasmuch as he willfully executed acts which are notoriously wrongful and prohibited by the law.


D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:


Between 4 and 5 p. m. on the 23d of April, 1908, Juana Sangalang, by direction of Francisco Samea, a resident of the barrio of Sapangbalen, in the pueblo of Mabalacat, Pampanga, hailed Braulio Magbag, the tenant of the former, because he had taken some straw to Samea’s house, instead of banana leaves as the latter had ordered. When Magbag appeared at the gate of Samea’s yard the latter insulted him, telling him that he had not done as ordered and was doing only what he pleased, and immediately hit him with a bubuyan stick 1
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