5/28/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly [20] Id. at 35-37. [21] Id. at 43-50. [22] People v. Chua, G.R. No. 187052, September 13, 2012, 680 SCRA 575, 587. [23] Id. at 588-589. [24] People v. Ochoa, G.R. No. 173792, August 31, 2011, 656 SCRA 382, 410. [25] Id. at 411; People v. Tuguinay, G.R. No. 186132, February 27, 2012, 667 SCRA 74, 78; People v. Ocden, G.R. No. 173198, June 1, 2011, 650 SCRA 124, 149. [26] People v. Chua, supra note 22, at 592. [27] Art. 315. Swindling (estafa). - Any person who shall defraud another by any of the means mentioned hereinbelow shall be punished by: 1st. The penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period to prision mayor in its minimum period, if the amount of the fraud is over 12,000 pesos but does not exceed 22,000 pesos; and if such amount exceeds the latter sum, the penalty provided in this paragraph shall be imposed in its maximum period, adding one year for each additional 10,000 pesos; but the total penalty which may be imposed shall not exceed twenty years. In such cases, and in connection with the accessory penalties which may be imposed and for the purpose of the other provisions of this Code, the penalty shall be termed prision mayor or reclusion temporal, as the case may be. [28] People v. Ocden, supra note 25, at 150. [29] People v. Temporada, 594 Phil. 680, 734 (2008). Source: Supreme Court E-Library This page was dynamically generated by the E-Library Content Management System (E-LibCMS) elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/57038 11/11