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PEOPLE vs. Paulino L. Mabag

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PAULINO MABAG y LABADO alias "PAULING", defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-38548 | 1980-07-24

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J.:

This is an automatic review of the death sentence imposed on Paulino Mabag y Labado by the Court of First Instance of Samar, Branch IX in Criminal Case No. 497.

The facts as found by the trial court are:

"That Engracia Baclas is the wife of Bartolome Baclas and Romulo Mendova is the stepson of Bartolome. All of these three persons were living in a house located at Sitio Biga, Bo. Mabini, municipality of Basey, Samar. In the afternoon of November 7, 1973 at about 5:00 o'clock, Engracia Logada went to the house of her sister-in-law, wife of one Paran a brother of Bartolome, to visit her who had recently...