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    Petitioner assaulted the victim by boxing him and hitting him with a bottle. The victim escaped and called his wife for help, but was found unconscious and salivating by police. The victim was pronounced dead from a myocardial infarction. Petitioner claimed he should not be liable because the victim had a preexisting heart condition. The court ruled the petitioner was guilty, as his assault was the proximate cause of death under Article 4(1) of the Revised Penal Code, which holds a person criminally liable for an unintended felony resulting from their intended wrongful act. Prior case law also establishes that an illegal aggressor is criminally responsible for death even if a victim's preexisting condition contributed.

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    Petitioner assaulted the victim by boxing him and hitting him with a bottle. The victim escaped and called his wife for help, but was found unconscious and salivating by police. The victim was pronounced dead from a myocardial infarction. Petitioner claimed he should not be liable because the victim had a preexisting heart condition. The court ruled the petitioner was guilty, as his assault was the proximate cause of death under Article 4(1) of the Revised Penal Code, which holds a person criminally liable for an unintended felony resulting from their intended wrongful act. Prior case law also establishes that an illegal aggressor is criminally responsible for death even if a victim's preexisting condition contributed.

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    Petitioner assaulted the victim by boxing him and hitting him with a bottle. The victim escaped and called his wife for help, but was found unconscious and salivating by police. The victim was pronounced dead from a myocardial infarction. Petitioner claimed he should not be liable because the victim had a preexisting heart condition. The court ruled the petitioner was guilty, as his assault was the proximate cause of death under Article 4(1) of the Revised Penal Code, which holds a person criminally liable for an unintended felony resulting from their intended wrongful act. Prior case law also establishes that an illegal aggressor is criminally responsible for death even if a victim's preexisting condition contributed.

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    People vs. Garcia

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    Petitioner assaulted the victim by boxing him and hitting him with a bottle. The victim escaped and called his wife for help, but was found unconscious and salivating by police. The victim was pronounced dead from a myocardial infarction. Petitioner claimed he should not be liable because the victim had a preexisting heart condition. The court ruled the petitioner was guilty, as his assault was the proximate cause of death under Article 4(1) of the Revised Penal Code, which holds a person criminally liable for an unintended felony resulting from their intended wrongful act. Prior case law also establishes that an illegal aggressor is criminally responsible for death even if a victim's preexisting condition contributed.

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    People vs.

    Garcia
    GR 171951
    2009

    FACT:
     Petitioner assaulted the victim. Pet then reached a bottle and then stuck the lower back
    portion of the head of the victim.
     When victim found an opportunity to escape, he call his wife and said that he was being
    attacked. The wife told the police of the mauling incident.
     Upon reaching the house of the victim by the police, nobody answered.
     Wife opened the door and found the victim lying in the floor, unconscious, salivating.
     Victim pronounced dead due to myocardial infarction.
     Pet assail that he should not be liable bc victim was previously afflicted with a heart
    ailment.
    ISSUE:
    Whether or not the mauling incident is the proximate cause of the death of victim.

    RULING:
    YES. Pet is guilty.

    Article 4(1) of the Revised Penal Code states that criminal liability shall be incurred "by any
    person committing a felony (delito) although the wrongful act done be different from that
    which he intended." The essential requisites for the application of this provision are: (a) the
    intended act is felonious; (b) the resulting act is likewise a felony; and (c) the unintended albeit
    graver wrong was primarily caused by the actor’s wrongful acts.31lawph!l

    In this case, petitioner was committing a felony when he boxed the victim and hit him with a
    bottle. Hence, the fact that Chy was previously afflicted with a heart ailment does not alter
    petitioner’s liability for his death. Ingrained in our jurisprudence is the doctrine laid down in the
    case of United States v. Brobst32 that:

    x x x where death results as a direct consequence of the use of illegal violence, the mere fact
    that the diseased or weakened condition of the injured person contributed to his death, does
    not relieve the illegal aggressor of criminal responsibility.33

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