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People. Vs. Primitivo Peralta, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PRIMITIVO PERALTA, ET AL., defendants, PEDRO PILLOS, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-30304 | 1971-06-07

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.B.L., J:

Appeal by Pedro Pillos from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Ilocos Norte, finding him guilty of murder and frustrated murder, and sentencing him accordingly.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 15 October 1967, Fortunato Daquioag, the official NP candidate for mayor of the municipality of Marcos, province of Ilocos Norte, was shot to death while the jeep he was riding in was passing by a political meeting being held for his opponent, re-electionist mayor Primitivo Peralta. The driver of the jeep, Norberto Macatiag, also sustained wounds in the head and on the right arm. As a...