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PEOPLE vs. Sulpicio De La Cerna, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SULPICIO DE LA CERNA, ET AL., defendants. SULPICIO DE LA CERNA, SERAPIO MAQUILING, TEODORO LIBUMFACIL, GODOFREDO ROTOR, SEVERINO MATCHOCA, and ANTONIO BAUTISTA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-20911 | 1967-10-30

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, J.P., J.: 

Sixteen persons, among them herein appellants, were indicted by the provincial fiscal in the Court of First Instance of Cotabato for double murder for the fatal shooting of Rafael and Casiano Cabizares, 1 father and son, in Barrio Cebuano, municipality of Tupi, province of Cotabato, on February 3, 1958. All pleaded not guilty. 

In the course of the trial, after the prosecution had rested the People's case, the accused filed a motion to dismiss on the ground, inter alia, that the fiscal, after conducting his own preliminary investigation, included in the charge the other accused who were...