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People vs. Jaranilla

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ELIAS JARANILLA, RICARDO SUYO, FRANCO BRILLANTES and HEMAN GOBRICETA, accused. ELIAS JARANILLA RICARDO SUYO, and FRANCO BRILLANTES, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-28547 | 1974-02-22

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This is an appeal of defendants Elias Jaranilla, Ricardo Suyo and Franco Brillantes from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Iloilo, which convicted them of robbery with homicide, sentenced each of them to reclusion perpetua and ordered them to pay solidarily the sum of six thousand pesos to the heirs of Ramonito Jabatan and the sum of five hundred pesos to Valentin Baylon as the value of five fighting cocks (Criminal Case No. 11082).

The evidence for the prosecution shows that at around eleven o'clock in the evening of January 9, 1966, Heman Gorriceta, who had just come from Fort San Pedro in Iloilo...