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PEOPLE vs. Jacinto Ricaplaza

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JACINTO RICAPLAZA @ TOTING RICAPLAZA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-25856 | 1968-04-29

D E C I S I O N 


ANGELES, J.: 

Jacinto Ricaplaza @ Toting Ricaplaza was charged with the crime of robbery in band with homicide in an information filed by the Provincial Fiscal of Cotabato, together with five other persons whose identities were, at the time of the trial, still unknown and at large, in the Court of First Instance of Cotabato. 

After trial, the court found Jacinto Ricaplaza guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of robbery with homicide only, as the number of the robbers was not established by the evidence. There being no modifying circumstance attendant in the commission of the crime, the accused was...