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PEOPLE vs. Adriano C. Leva

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ADRIANO LEVA Y CRUZ, accused whose death sentence is under review.

G.R. No. L-34291 | 1980-02-12

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This is a review en consulta of the decision of the Circuit Criminal Court of Manila, convicting Adriano Leva of robbery with homicide, sentencing him to death and ordering him to pay the heirs of Augusto Gamban an indemnity of thirty-two thousand pesos and to return the cash and ring taken from him or to pay his heirs one hundred fifty-five pesos as the value thereof (Criminal Case No. 634-71).

Augusto Gamban, 23, a resident of 1446 Perdigon Street, Paco, Manila and an employee of the Bureau of Public Works, was feloniously assaulted near his residence at around five o'clock in the afternoon of April 5,...