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People. Dramayo, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PABLEO DRAMAYO, PATERNO ECUBIN, PRIOLO BILLONA, FRANCISCO BILLONA, MODESTO RONQUILLA, CRESCENCIO SAVANDAL and SEVERENO SAVANDAL, defendants; PABLEO DRAMAYO and PATERNO ECUBIN, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-21325 | 1971-10-29

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

There is an element of ingenuity as well as of novelty in the plea made by counsel de oficio in this appeal of the accused Pableo Dramayo and Paterno Ecubin, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Estelito Nogaliza. The claim is vigorously pressed that because the information alleged conspiracy on the part of seven defendants, with only the two appellants being convicted, two having been utilized as state witnesses and the other three having been acquitted on the ground of insufficiency of evidence as to their culpability, the judgment of conviction against the appellants cannot stand,...