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    159 People Vs Ang Chun Kit

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    Ang Chun Kit, a Chinese national and member of a Hong Kong drug syndicate, was arrested in a buy-bust operation where he sold 1 kilo of methamphetamine to an undercover agent for 400,000 pesos. A search of his car found more drugs. He was convicted at trial. On appeal, he maintained his innocence, arguing the evidence was planted. The Court held that disregarding the booking sheet and arrest report, the testimonies of the arresting officers clearly established his guilt beyond reasonable doubt based on being caught in the act of the drug sale. Proof of the illegal drug sale between seller and buyer is sufficient to uphold a conviction.

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    Ang Chun Kit, a Chinese national and member of a Hong Kong drug syndicate, was arrested in a buy-bust operation where he sold 1 kilo of methamphetamine to an undercover agent for 400,000 pesos. A search of his car found more drugs. He was convicted at trial. On appeal, he maintained his innocence, arguing the evidence was planted. The Court held that disregarding the booking sheet and arrest report, the testimonies of the arresting officers clearly established his guilt beyond reasonable doubt based on being caught in the act of the drug sale. Proof of the illegal drug sale between seller and buyer is sufficient to uphold a conviction.

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    Ang Chun Kit, a Chinese national and member of a Hong Kong drug syndicate, was arrested in a buy-bust operation where he sold 1 kilo of methamphetamine to an undercover agent for 400,000 pesos. A search of his car found more drugs. He was convicted at trial. On appeal, he maintained his innocence, arguing the evidence was planted. The Court held that disregarding the booking sheet and arrest report, the testimonies of the arresting officers clearly established his guilt beyond reasonable doubt based on being caught in the act of the drug sale. Proof of the illegal drug sale between seller and buyer is sufficient to uphold a conviction.

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    159 People Vs Ang Chun Kit

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    Ang Chun Kit, a Chinese national and member of a Hong Kong drug syndicate, was arrested in a buy-bust operation where he sold 1 kilo of methamphetamine to an undercover agent for 400,000 pesos. A search of his car found more drugs. He was convicted at trial. On appeal, he maintained his innocence, arguing the evidence was planted. The Court held that disregarding the booking sheet and arrest report, the testimonies of the arresting officers clearly established his guilt beyond reasonable doubt based on being caught in the act of the drug sale. Proof of the illegal drug sale between seller and buyer is sufficient to uphold a conviction.

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    159. PEOPLE VS.

    ANG CHUN KIT

    FACTS: ANG CHUN KIT, a Chinese national and reputed to be a member of a Hong Kong-based
    drug syndicate operating in Metro Manila, was collared by NARCOM operatives in a buy-bust
    operation after he sold to an undercover agent for P400,000.00 a kilo of methamphetamine
    hydrochloride known as shabu. His car also yielded more of the regulated drug neatly tucked in
    a Kleenex box. The accused refuted the charges. However, the Regional Trial Court of Pasig,
    giving credence to the testimonies of the prosecution witnesses, found appellant Ang Chun Kit
    also known as "Romy Ang" guilty of selling shabu in violation of Sec. 15, Art. III, R.A.No. 6425, as
    amended, sentenced him to life imprisonment and ordered him to pay a fine of P30,000.00.
    Hence this appeal. The accused maintains his innocence and faults the trial court in not holding
    that the crime could not have been committed under the circumstances narrated by the
    arresting officers and that the alleged buy-bust operation was a frame-up and the evidence
    merely planted. He argues that the prosecution was not able to prove his guilt beyond
    reasonable doubt since every piece of evidence presented against him is tainted with
    constitutional infirmities.

    ISSUE: WON conviction of Ang Chun Kit was proper?

    HELD:With regard to the Booking Sheet and Arrest Report, we already said in People v. Morico
    that “when an arrested person signs a Booking Sheet and Arrest Report at a police station he
    does not admit the commission of an offense nor confess to any incriminating circumstance.
    The Booking Sheet is merely a statement of the accused's being booked and of the date which
    accompanies the fact of an arrest. It is a police report and may be useful in charges of arbitrary
    detention against the police themselves. It is not an extra-judicial statement and cannot be the
    basis of a judgment of conviction. “But as in the cases of Mauyao and Morico, accused Ang
    Chun Kit's conformity to the questioned documents has not been a factor in his conviction since
    his guilt has been adequately established by the detailed and unshaken testimonies of the
    officers who apprehended him. Hence even disregarding the questioned documents we still
    find the accused guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime charged. The alleged
    inconsistencies do not detract from the established fact that the accused was caught in
    flagrante delicto as a result of a buy-bust operation since the arresting agents were able to give
    an otherwise clear and convincing account of the circumstances leading to the arrest of the
    accused. And, in every prosecution for illegal sale of dangerous drugs what is material and
    indispensable is the submission of proof that the sale of illicit drug took place between the
    seller and the poseur-buyer

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