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PEOPLE vs. Andres Magallano

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ANDRES MAGALLANO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-32978 | 1980-10-30

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, Acting, C.J.:

The Court sustains the conviction for parricide of the accused-appellant, Andres Magallano, on his own admission that he strangled his wife to death. The defense of insanity as an exempting circumstance was not established and did not overcome the legal presumption that a person's acts are of his own free will and intelligence. The settled rule is that the onus probandi rests upon him who invokes insanity as a defense and the defense failed to discharge this burden.

The accused was charged before the Court of First Instance of Davao City with parricide for having killed his lawful wife,...