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PEOPLE vs. Melquiades Gorospe 105 Phil 184

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MELQUIADES GOROSPE, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. L-10644-45 | 1959-02-19

D E C I S I O N


ENDENCIA, J.:

This is an appeal from the judgment in Criminal Case Nos. 1171 and 1172 of the Court of First Instance of Quezon, wherein appellant Melquiades Gorospe was found guilty of murder and sentenced in each to "suffer cadena perpetua, with the accessory penalties of the law, to indemnify the respective heirs of Leon Padchanan and Melecio Guillen in the amount of P6,000.00 in each case, and to pay the costs." These two cases were tried jointly by agreement of the parties, as the facts and circumstances surrounding both are intimately connected and interrelated.

Five witnesses testified for the prosecution, namely,...