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PEOPLE vs. Orlando Tania, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ORLANDO TANIA alias LORING, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-18514 | 1966-04-30

D E C I S I O N 


REGALA, J.: 

Appeal from a judgment rendered by the Court of First Instance of Cagayan against Orlando Tania, Ricardo Tania, Teofilo de la Cruz and Servillano Mata, convicting them of the crime of robbery in band with homicide and sentencing them to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua. 

The evidence for the prosecution shows that at about 2:00 o'clock in the early morning of August 15, 1959, while the spouses Gregorio Unida and Petronila Taloza were sleeping with their five children in their house at barrio Balza, municipality of Buguey, Cagayan province, they were awakened by some people demanding that...