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Criminal Law, Case No. 25, People vs. Reyes, March 29, 1935, A

Gregorio Reyes stabbed his partner Fausta Tavera in the chest with a knife after she said she would not return to him and was going to her parents. Tavera ran to a neighbor's house where she died from shock due to the wound. Reyes was convicted of homicide but appealed, arguing the wound was superficial and he did not intend to kill Tavera. The court upheld the conviction, finding that even if the victim had an underlying medical condition, Reyes' assault was the proximate cause of death, and stabbing someone in the chest can reasonably be expected to cause death.

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Criminal Law, Case No. 25, People vs. Reyes, March 29, 1935, A

Gregorio Reyes stabbed his partner Fausta Tavera in the chest with a knife after she said she would not return to him and was going to her parents. Tavera ran to a neighbor's house where she died from shock due to the wound. Reyes was convicted of homicide but appealed, arguing the wound was superficial and he did not intend to kill Tavera. The court upheld the conviction, finding that even if the victim had an underlying medical condition, Reyes' assault was the proximate cause of death, and stabbing someone in the chest can reasonably be expected to cause death.

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MARVIN TONI DULCI R.

MARAA, LAW I-B


DIGEST / CASE NO. 25

CRIM. LAW / CASE

G.R. No. L-42117, March 29, 1935


THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs.
GREGORIO REYES, defendant-appellant.

FACTS: Fausta Tavera had been living with Gregorio Reyes for a couple of
weeks, but the formers parents had persuaded her to come home and were
demanding that appellant pay a dowry of P30 before setting the date of the
celebration of their marriage. That evening after a barrio procession, the
couple were talking into the yard of a house, when Tavera told Reyes that
she could not return to him and that she will be going to her parents in
Catanduanes. Reyes dragged Tavera towards the street and stabbed her in
the chest with a fanknife, wounding her slightly, as the knife failed to pierce
through her thoracic cavity after having hit a bone. The injured Tavera ran to
the house of the barrio lieutenant where she died at the foot of the staircase
from shock as a result of the wound. Relatives of the deceased attempted to
seize the Reyes but with the aid of his knife, he escaped and ran away from
the scene. On April 30, 1934, Reyes was convicted in the Court of First
Instance of Camarines Sur of the crime of homicide committed on the person
of Fausta Tavera.
Reyes contends that he cannot be convicted of homicide as the wound
actually inflicted was a superficial wound of no intrinsic magnitude, and that
he has no intention of committing the crime of homicide, and thus this
appeal.

ISSUE: Whether or not, appellant Reyes is guilty of homicide.

RULING: Yes. A person is responsible for the consequences of his criminal


act and even if the deceased had been shown to be suffering from a
diseased heart (which was not shown), the appellant's assault being the
proximate cause of death rendered him responsible for such. Moreover, it
was repeatedly held that when a person stabs another with a lethal weapon
such as a fanknife upon a part of the body, for example, the head, chest, or
stomach, death could reasonably be anticipated, and the accused must be
presumed to have intended the natural consequences of his wrongful act.

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