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PEOPLE vs. Lorenzo Candava, Et Al. 119 Phil. 842

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LORENZO CANDAVA and TEOFILO DE LA PENA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-18517 | 1964-03-31

D E C I S I O N 


CONCEPCION, J.: 

Defendants Lorenzo Candava and Teofilo de la Peña are accused of murder. After due trial, under a plea of not guilty, the Court of First Instance of Oriental Mindoro rendered a decision convicting them as charged and sentencing each of them to life imprisonment, with the corresponding accessory penalties, to indemnify the heirs of the deceased, Melecio Mañebo, in the sum of P6,000, and to pay the costs. Said defendants seek a review of this decision by appeal. 

The record shows that on December 1, 1957, at about 10:00 p.m., Melecio Mañebo died in the road of the barrio of Bungahan, Calapan,...