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PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. Surio, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ELPEDIO SURIO and FLORENTINO SURIO, defendants, ELPEDIO SURIO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-30249 | 1974-04-30

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This is an appeal of defendant Elpedio Surio from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Samar, convicting him of murder, sentencing him to "life imprisonment" and ordering him to indemnify the heirs of Restituto Morales in the sum of four thousand pesos and to pay the costs. His brother and co-accused, Florentino Surio, was acquitted (Criminal Case No. 3110).
There is no controversy as to the fact that Restituto Morales, a forty-two year old farmer, was feloniously assaulted and mortally wounded in the abdomen at around eleven o'clock in the evening of May 19, 1963 in Barrio Canjumadal, Pambujan,...