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Compilation of Impossible Crimes

 X stole a watch from the possession of C which turned out to be the watch he owns
but lost 2 weeks earlier. X cannot be the thief of his own property. In theft, it is
essential that the offender take a personal property belonging to another.

 A man who puts his hand in the coat pocket of another with the intention to steal the
latter's wallet and finds the pocket empty.

 X shoots the place where he thought his victim Z would be, although in reality, Z was
not present in said place.

 Four culprits, all armed with firearms and with intent to kill, went to the intended
victim’s house and after having pinpointed the latter’s bedroom, all four fired at and
riddled the said room with bullets, thinking that the intended victim was already there
as it was about 10:00 in the evening. It so happened that the intended victim did not
come home that evening and so was not in her bedroom at that time. Eventually the
culprits were prosecuted and convicted by the trial court for attempted murder. CA
affirmed the judgment but the SC modified the same and held the petitioner liable
only for the so-called impossible crime. (Intod vs. CA, G.R. No. 103119, October 21,
1992)

 Accused was a collector for a company called Mega Foam Int’l Inc. and received a
P10,000 check as payment from a Mega Foam customer. However, instead of
turning over the check to Mega Foam, the accused took the check and had it
deposited into her brother-in-law’s bank account. It turns out the check was not
funded. In this case, petitioner performed all the acts to consummate the crime of
qualified theft, which is a crime against property. Petitioner's evil intent cannot be
denied, as the mere act of unlawfully taking the check meant for Mega Foam
showed her intent to gain or be unjustly enriched. Were it not for the fact that the
check bounced, she would have received the face value thereof, which was not
rightfully hers. Therefore, it was only due to the extraneous circumstance of the
check being unfunded, a fact unknown to petitioner at the time, that prevented the
crime from being produced. The thing unlawfully taken by petitioner turned out to be
absolutely worthless, because the check was eventually dishonored, and Mega
Foam had received the cash to replace the value of said dishonored check. (Jacinto
vs. People)

 A was leaning on a tree, stabbed by B successively to kill him. It turned out that B
had been dead hours before.
 A wife and her paramour were unintentionally found by her husband, who came from
a long and tiring work assigned in the other town, as both were naked and seemed
to have been fall in a deep sleep. And because of what he saw, his heart crushed
and without any doubt took his gun and shot both his wife and the other man.
Eventually, based on the forensic investigations and police reports conducted, it was
found out that his wife and the paramour were already dead three hours before the
husband came to their house.

 Charlie hated his classmate, Brad, because the latter was assiduously
courting Lily, Charlie’s girlfriend. Charlie went to a veterinarian and asked for some
poison on the pretext that it would be used to kill a very sick, old dog. Actually,
Charlie intended to use the poison on Brad. The veterinarian mistakenly gave
Charlie a non-toxic powder which, when mixed with Brad’s food, did not kill Brad

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