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PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. Mejia

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DOMINADOR MEJIA, Nicknamed Domingo, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-26195 | 1974-01-31

D E C I S I O N

CASTRO, J:

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila in its criminal case 72744, finding the accused Dominador Mejia, Rolando Echalar, Ricardo Garcia and Fidel Capili guilty of the crime of murder and sentencing the first three named accused to life imprisonment and the last named accused, by reason of his minority, to a lighter penalty. Echalar, Garcia and Capili later withdrew their appeals, 1 leaving Dominador Mejia as the sole appellant.

The appellant Mejia, thru counsel de oficio, seeks a reversal of the judgment and a consequent declaration of his innocence on the ground of...