Figueroa v. People

Summary

This criminal case involved six accused persons who conspired to commit robbery with violence and intimidation against victims Evelyn Jao and Aaron Tao. The Supreme Court denied the petition for review and affirmed the conviction, finding the positive identification by the victim credible and rejecting the accused's alibis as self-serving. The Court ruled that robbery was consummated when personal belongings were taken through violence and intimidation, and that the coordinated actions of the accused demonstrated criminal conspiracy. However, the Court modified the penalty imposed by the lower court, correcting the indeterminate sentence to comply with the proper range under the Indeterminate Sentence Law: eight years and twenty days of prision mayor (minimum) to fourteen years, ten months and twenty days of reclusion temporal (maximum). The case demonstrates the application of criminal conspiracy principles and proper penalty computation in robbery cases.