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PEOPLE vs. Felipe B. Pareja, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FELIPE B. PAREJA, ET AL., defendants, FELIPE B. PAREJA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-21937 | 1969-11-29

D E C I S I O N 


PER CURIAM: 

In the early evening of July 3, 1961, as Antonio Abad Tormis, lawyer and columnist-editor of Cebu City's leading daily newspaper The Republic News, came out of the Esquire Barber Shop along Borromeo street in Cebu City, a man casually sidled alongside and greeted him courteously. Acknowledging the greeting but without changing his normal pace, Tormis proceeded towards his car, which was parked nearby. He had already entered his car and was about to start the motor when the same man suddenly whipped out a revolver and pumped three bullets into him. At practically point-blank range, all three bullets...