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PEOPLE vs. Filomeno Noveloso

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FILOMENO NOVELOSO, alias AMIN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-30251 | 1980-02-14

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This is a murder case. At around three o'clock in the early morning of March 2, 1967 the spouses Monico Valdez, 41, and Lucia Bumatay, 29, with their two small children, were asleep in their humble habitation in Barrio Tallaoen, Luna, La Union. Their abode was a hut three meters long and three meters wide, with cogon roof and bamboo walls and floor, about four feet above the ground, and with a fourstep bamboo ladder and door made of nipa shingles.

They were aroused from their sleep by the tapping and knocking on the walls and door of the hut. Valdez sat on the mat, holding the three month-old baby named Elma...