Back

PEOPLE vs. Diosdado De Atras

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DIOSDADO DE ATRAS alias "DADING", defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-32423 | 1980-10-29

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J.:

This is an appeal by accused Diosdado de Atras from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Occidental Mindoro in Criminal Case No. R-837, convicting him of the crime of Murder.

Hermogenes Cruz, minister of the Iglesia ni Kristo (INK) in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, and concurrently provincial treasurer of the INK was shot while sleeping in his house located inside the INK compound in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, at about 1:30 A.M. on December 20, 1963. Members of the INK residing in the compound were awakened by a woman shouting "Ka Collantes, Ka Collantes, my husband is dead." The shout came...