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PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. Dereje, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RODRIGO DEREJE alias Lodring, LICERIO PARTIDA alias Tomas, ALBERTO MENDONES alias Berting, AVELINO PASAMIC alias Felino and CELESTINO PARTIDA alias Tenong, accused, RODRIGO DEREJE and LICERIO PARTIDA,

G.R. No. L-31155 | 1974-04-22

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

Rodrigo Dereje and Licerio Partida appealed from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Pangasinan, convicting them of robbery with homicide, sentencing them "to suffer life imprisonment and to indemnify the offended party in the sum of P116" and to pay six thousand pesos to the heirs of Tomas Macadangdang. Alberto Mendones, Avelino Pasamic and Celestino Partida were acquitted on the Found of reasonable doubt. (Criminal Case No. T-1049).

The facts supporting the judgment of conviction are as follows:

At about ten o'clock in the evening of December 10, 1962, Tomas Macadangdang and his family, composed...