PEOPLE V RICOHERMOSO L – 30527 – 28 | March 29, 1974 |
PEOPLE V RICOHERMOSO L – 30527 – 28 | March 29, 1974 | J. Aquino Avoidance of Greater Evil or Injury Facts : Geminiano de Leon, together with his common-law wife, son Marianito de Leon and one Rizal Rosales, chanced upon Pio Ricohermoso. Owning a parcel of land, which Ricohermoso cultivated as kaingin, Geminiano asked about his share of palay harvest and added that she should be allowed to taste the palay harvested from his land. Ricohermoso said Geminiano could collect the palay anytime. Upon returning from his trip to Barrio Bagobasin, Geminiano dropped by Ricohermoso’s house and asked him about the palay, to which the latter answered defiantly that he will not give him the palay, whatever happens. Geminiano remonstrated and that point (as if by prearrangement), Ricohermoso unsheathed his bolo, while his father-in-law Severo Padernal got an axe, and attacked Geminiano. At the same time and place, Ricohermoso’s brother-in-law Juan Padern...