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PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. Villacorte, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. VIOLETO VILLACORTE y GERBIN, alias BONGING, et. al., defendants. CRISANTO INOFERIO Y ALINDAO alias SANTE, and MARCIANO YUSAY alias MANCING (appeal withdrawn res. of 7/10/67, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-21860 | 1974-02-28

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDEZ, J:

The charge in this case was for robbery with homicide and the penalty imposed upon the appellant Crisanto Inoferio and his co-accused Violeto Villacorte and Marciano Yusay was reclusion perpetua and the payment of indemnity to the heirs of the deceased Benito Ching in the sum of P6,000.00, This case is now before this Court only on the appeal of Inoferio, because although the lower court convicted him and his co-accused Villacorte and Yusay (Alfredo Handig, a fourth accused was acquitted), Villacorte did not appeal, while the appeal of Yusay was withdrawn upon his motion which was granted by this Court on...