Jumping to conclusion

Jumping to conclusion is an idiom which means, according to the Cambridge Dictionary Online, to ​guess the ​facts about a ​situation without having enough ​information.

It is also a psychological term according to Wikipedia with basically the same meaning.

Leonor Boado, in her textbook in criminal law Notes and Cases on the Revised Penal Code,  2012 Edition, gives a peculiar legal twist to the term. On page 47 of the text she says:

As to whether Facundo, or any suicide jumper, is liable for the death of anybody he happens to fall onto, Reyes has a different opinion than Boado.

That will have to wait for the next post. And we will see then that Boado was not facetious in saying that Facundo, indeed, jumped to his conclusion.