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PEOPLE vs. Benjamin Magallanes, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BENJAMIN MAGALLANES, ET AL., defendants, PONTE ABINUMAN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. Nos. L-21559-21560 | 1968-06-29

D E C I S I O N 


ANGELES, J.: 

Manuel Lagarde, Julian Bartido, Benjamin Magallanes, Arnold Viterbo, Quirino Cornal and Ponte Abinuman were prosecuted in the Court of First Instance of Masbate under separate Informations for Murder (Criminal case No. 4136), and Frustrated Murder (Criminal Case No. 4138), which arose out of one and the same shooting incident near the wharf of Masbate, Masbate, at about 6:30 in the morning of May 21, 1962, resulting in the killing of Marcial Tamares and the near-fatal shooting of Moises Espinosa. Upon arraignment on June 21, 1962, all the accused entered separate pleas of "not guilty" to the two (2)...