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PEOPLE vs. Leopoldo V. Abajero

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LEOPOLDO ABAJERO y VILLON, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. L-36039 | 1980-05-17

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

This is a case of robbery with homicide. At about five o'clock in the afternoon of December 26, 1971, Clinton C. Tan, 47, and Chua Sy, 49, boarded a calesa at the corner of Teodora Alonzo Street and Claro M. Recto Avenue, Manila. They were going home. The calesa proceeded to Jose Abad Santos Street.

After passing the M. Hizon Elementary School, Tan and Chua Sy espied four male persons in the middle of the street. They stopped the calesa and two of them, later identified as Leopoldo Abejero, 24, and Jesus Reyes, 18, entered the calesa. Reyes announced that they were staging a holdup. Abejero and Reyes and...