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People vs. De La Cruz

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DEMETRIO DE LA CRUZ, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-30059 | 1970-12-19

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., Acting C.J: 

Direct appeal from a sentence of life imprisonment meted out by the Court of First Instance of Pangasinan in its Criminal Case No. 23149-I. 

Appellant Demetrio de la Cruz was charged together with his brother, Alberto de la Cruz, and his nephew, Eulogio de la Cruz, with the murder of Leonardo Sanchez, by shooting the latter to death with a .22 caliber rifle on 1 June 1964 in Rosales, Pangasinan. Alberto and Eulogio were first arrested, tried and sentenced to life imprisonment, but appellant Demetrio managed to avoid arrest and went into hiding for four (4) years. He finally...