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People vs. Cristobal, Jr.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. AURELIO CRISTOBAL, JR. Y SARMIENTO, VICENTE DUNCIL Y MACALINO, and FLORENTINO VALERIO, JR. Y LAZARO, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-32562 | 1979-06-29

D E C I S I O N

MELENCIO-HERRERA, J:

This is an automatic review of the Decision of the Circuit Criminal Court (Manila) in CCC-VI-628 imposing the death penalty on the accused Aurelio Cristobal, Jr., Vicente Duncil and Florentino Valerio, Jr., who were found guilty of the crime of Robbery with Homicide with the aggravating circumstances of nighttime, abuse of superior strength and craft, without any mitigating circumstances to offset the same.

It has been established that on December 23, 1969, at about 1:00 o'clock in the morning, a hold-up occurred inside a passenger jeepney driven by Melquiades San Jose. The jeepney was on its way...