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PEOPLE vs. Julian Tiongson Y De La Cruz 120 Phil. 1197

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JULIAN TIONGSON Y DE LA CRUZ, ET AL., defendants; PAULINO GUIEB Y MENDOZA, WILSON ALICANTE Y MORALES, ANTONIO YACAT Y BELMONTE and PABLO ANTONIO Y FERIA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-9866-7 | 1964-11-28

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

The above-named defendants were charged under two separate informations filed in the Court of First Instance of Rizal (Quezon City Branch) with the murders of Rizalino Lopez and of Mariano Lopez, Jr., respectively. After trial they were found guilty as charged - the crimes being qualified by treachery and abuse of superior strength, and aggravated by the circumstances that they had been committed by a band - and sentenced in each case to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua; to indemnify, jointly and severally, the heirs of the victim (Rizalino in Criminal Case No. Q-765, and Mariano, Jr., in...