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The petitioner Conrado Melo was initially charged with frustrated homicide for injuring Benjamin Obillo. Obillo later died from his wounds, at which point an amended information was filed charging Melo with consummated homicide. Melo claimed this constituted double jeopardy. The court held that double jeopardy does not apply when the second offense was not in existence at the time of the first prosecution, as there is no possibility of conviction for an offense that did not yet exist. As Obillo

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