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People vs. Casiguran, et al

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. WALDO CASIGURAN, WALLY CASIGURAN and JUANITO CASIGURAN, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-45387 | 1979-11-07

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

Ismael Bato, a forty-three-year-old driver of a sand and gravel truck, was assaulted at around three o'clock in the afternoon of June 27, 1976 near his house in the compound at Barrio Malanday, San Mateo, Rizal.

He sustained a mortal wound in the chest which affected his lungs and heart, an incised wound in his right earlobe, lacerated wounds on his head and face, and contusions and abrasions on his head, chest and left forearm. He died upon arrival at the hospital.

This case, like its congeners, poses the ever-recurring question as to whether the killing was murder, as held by the trial court which imposed...