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PEOPLE vs. Fernandito Togonon, Et Al 101 Phil 804

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FERNANDITO TOGONON, ET. AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-8926 | 1957-06-29

D E C I S I O N


REYES, A., J.:

In an information filed in 1952 by the provincial fiscal of Iloilo in the Court of First Instance of that province, 94 persons were accused of "the crime of rebellion with multiple murder, arson, kidnapping, rape, robbery and physical injuries." Only some of the accused were tried, the great majority being still at large. Of those tried some were acquitted and some convicted. Among those convicted were Fernandito Togonon alias Andres Aldeguer and Coronacion Chiva alias Walingwaling.

Togonon was found by the trial judge to have joined the Huks - a group of persons who have risen publicly and taken arms...