- Petitioner
- Analyn Bondame
- Respondent
- People
- Citation
- G.R. No. 208994
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Division
- First Division
- Decided
- March 13, 2019
Whether petitioner committed qualified theft with grave abuse of confidence by taking P2,000 from employer's sales collection
Summary
This Supreme Court case involved qualified theft committed by a cashier against her employer. Analyn Bondame, working as cashier at RS Petron Service Station, was charged with qualified theft for taking P2,000 worth of P20 bills from sales collection. Two fellow cashiers testified they witnessed her taking the money and hiding it. The RTC convicted her, the CA affirmed, and the SC denied her petition while modifying the penalty. The Court found all elements of qualified theft with grave abuse of confidence were established: unlawful taking of personal property belonging to another, with intent to gain, without consent, without violence, and with grave abuse of confidence due to her position. The SC reduced her sentence from the original 4 years 2 months 1 day to 9 years 4 months 1 day, to 6 months 1 day to 2 years 11 months 11 days of prision correccional, pursuant to the more favorable provisions of R.A. No. 10951 which amended the penalties under the Revised Penal Code.