17

PEOPLE v MANGULABNAN
(99 PHIL 992)

Facts:
At 11p.m. November 5, 1953, gunfire awakened the spouses Vicente
Pacson and Cipriana Tadeo, the 4 minor children and Cipriana’s mother, Monica
del Mundo, in their house at barrio Tikiw, San Antonio, Nueva Ecija. Someone
broke into the kitchen wall at the back of the house and then broke into the living
room. Intruder with a hunting knife was recognized by Cipriana Tadeo to be
Agustin Mangulabnan.
Agustin snatched from Cipriana Tadeo: necklace (P50) and P50 (bills) and
P20 (silver coins). Two others took from Monica del Mundo: P200 in cash and in
gold necklace (P200). They demanded a diamond ring from her but she did not
give so he struck her twice on the face with the butt of his gun. Then, one fired his
gun at the ceiling. Cipriana found her husband dead lying on the floor upstairs.

Issue:
Whether or not the Special Complex Crime of Robbery with homicide is
present when the killing therein is not intentional?

Held:
Yes.

Ratio:
In order to determine the existence of the crime of robbery with homicide,
it is enough that a homicide would result by reason or on the occasion of the
robbery and it is immaterial that the death would supervene by mere accident
provided that the homicide produced by reason or on occasion of the robbery
inasmuch as it is only the result obtained, without reference or distinction as to
the circumstances, causes, modes or persons intervening in the commission of
the crime, that has to be taken into consideration.