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Sulpicio Intod and others were convicted of attempted murder for firing shots into an empty bedroom during a land dispute. The Supreme Court modified the conviction to the lesser crime of "impossible crime" under Article 4(2) of the Penal Code. There was legal impossibility because no one was in the bedroom when shots were fired, so the intended crime of murder could not be accomplished. While the group intended to commit a crime, factual circumstances prevented its completion. The Court sentenced Intod to

Author

Joyleen Hebron

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