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PEOPLE vs. Severo Curatchia

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SEVERO CURATCHIA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-31771 | 1980-05-16

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

Automatic review of the decision of the Circuit Criminal Court, 9th Judicial District (Gumaca, Quezon) imposing the death penalty on Severo Curatchia for the crime of robbery with homicide, committed, according to the evidence of the prosecution and as, narrated in the People's brief, which We quote, together with relevant facts, before and after the commission of the crime, as follows:

"On July 28, 1966 at 5:00 p.m., Faustino Laurista passed by the house of the accused in barrio Bantad, Gumaca, Quezon. He found there the accused and the deceased already looking drunk but still imbibing 'lambanog.' Upon...