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People vs. Dudum, Jr., et al

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PORFIRIO DUMDUM, JR. and RENATO PERALTA, defendants whose death sentences are under review.

G.R. No. L-35279 | 1979-07-30

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

This is a review en consulta of the decision of the Circuit Criminal Court at Pasig, Rizal, convicting Porfirio Dumdum, Jr. and Renato Peralta of murder, sentencing each of them to death and ordering them to pay solidarily a total indemnity of P32,000 to the heirs of the deceased Dionisio Macadangdang (Criminal Case No. 961).

At about one o'clock in the afternoon of September 7, 1971, Macadangdang, 38, was stabbed in the national penitentiary at Muntinlupa, Rizal. He sustained three incised wounds located on the neck, right arm and left hand and eight stab wounds: four on the chest, one on the abdomen, one on...