People V Dio
People V Dio
People V Dio
Issue:
Whether or not Tobias and Dio would constitute the crime of attempted robbery with homicide in a DEATH
PENALTY?
Ruling:
No, there is a special complex crime that can be penalized of.
Where the killing of the victim was merely incidental to and an offshoot of the plan to carry out the robbery,
which, however, was not consummated, because of resistance by the deceased, the crime committed is
only attempted robbery with homicide
Decision:
Supreme Court
WHEREFORE, the judgment of the trial court is hereby MODIFIED; the appellant is found GUILTY
BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT OF THE SPECIAL COMPLEX CRIME OF ATTEMPTED ROBBERY WITH
HOMICIDE and he is sentenced to suffer an indeterminate penalty of 10 years and 1 day of prision
mayor as minimum to 20 years of reclusion temporal as maximum, to indemnify the heirs of Crispulo
Alega in the amount of P30,000.00, and to pay one-half of the costs. People vs. Dio, 130 SCRA 151,
No. L-36461 June 29, 1984