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PEOPLE. vs. ASTERIO MARCINA

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff- appellee, vs. ASTERIO MARCINA alias AGO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-29912 | 1977-05-31

FERNANDO, J.:

It was the death of a certain Eliseo Ganay that led to the prosecution and thereafter conviction for the crime of murder of the accused Asterio Marcina, now the appellant. The trial judge gave credence to the evidence for the prosecution that the victim having taken refuge in the house of the accused in San Fabian on October 17, 1967 as the typhoon Welming prevented his return to Sison, both municipalities being in Pangasinan, was thereafter killed by the latter. The motive presumably was jealousy induced by improper advances to the wife of the host. The testimony on behalf of the accused that the deceased met his death by...