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PEOPLE vs. Ernesto Garcia, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff, vs. ERNESTO GARCIA, RICARDO RODRIGUEZ, GEORGE BURDETT, ROMEO MARANAN, REYNALDO ARNALDO and AMADOR ATIENZA, defendants whose death sentences are under automatic review.

G.R. No. L-40106 | 1980-03-13

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This is another murder case involving the killing of prisoners by other prisoners in the New Bilibid Prison, Muntinlupa, Rizal, where feuding gangs used to stage vendettas and rumbles.

There is no question as to the corpus delicti. At about eight o'clock in the morning of Good Friday, April 9, 1971, some prisoners of dormitory 4-C, while sunning themselves in front of building IV, were feloniously attacked by other prisoners who used improvised bladed weapons.

Four prisoners, namely, Samuel Diaz, Augusto de Guzman, Orlando de Villa and Salvador Alcontin, were mortally wounded and died later in the hospital...