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People. Vs Bartolay, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JUAN BARTOLAY, SOFRONIO BARTOLAY, CARLOS PEJO FELICISIMO BARTOLAY, and JESUS BARTOLAY, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-30610 | 1971-10-22

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.B.L., J:

This is an appeal by five (5) accused-appellants, namely, Juan Bartolay, Carlos Pejo, Sofronio Bartolay, Fecisimo Bartolay and Jesus Bartolay, from the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Masbate, in its Criminal Case No. 4577, convicting them of three (3) murders, qualified by abuse of superior strength, committed in the persons of the brothers Elias, Renerio and Galicano Espenilla.

In each case, the Court sentenced all the accused-appellants to life imprisonment (reclusion perpetua), with all accessory penalties prescribed by law, except as to appellant Juan Bartolay whom the Court gave the...