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People vs. Lunar, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LEOPOLDO LUNAR and BIENVENIDO AUSTRIA, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-15579 | 1972-05-29

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM p:

Automatic review of the death sentence imposed upon the two accused-appellants for the complex crime of murder with assault upon an agent of a person in authority.

On December 27, 1957, two informations were filed with the Court of First Instance of Rizal charging the two herein accused and ten others, all detainees at the Rizal provincial jail, (a) with the crime of frustrated murder committed in a jailbreak on December 23, 1957 against the person of Jose Olivar, a trustee police prisoner in the said jail, attended by aggravating circumstances of superior strength and nocturnity; 1 and (b) with the crime...