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PEOPLE vs. Marcelo Constantino, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARCELO CONSTANTINO, GREGORIO CONSTANTINO, HILARION CONSTANTINO and FAUSTO CONSTANTINO, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-23558 | 1967-08-10

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, J.P., J.: 

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction. The appellants - Marcelo, Gregorio, Fausto and Hilarion, all surnamed Constantino - were charged with murder for the death of one Carlino Perdido. The Court of First Instance of Cagayan, after trial, found all of them guilty as charged and imposed on each life imprisonment and indemnification of the heirs of the deceased in the amount of P6,000.00. 

The prosecution's version of the facts, which the lower court upheld, is as follows: One Sabas Constantino was stabbed in Barrio Santor, Sanchez Mira, Cagayan, on June 24, 1963, Sabas is closely...