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PEOPLE vs. Gomez Saligan

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff , vs. GOMEZ SALIGAN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. L-39712 | 1980-11-21

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

This case was originally certified to this Court in 1972 1 for automatic review of the decision of the Court of First Instance of Davao del Norte promulgated in open court on September 22, 1972 finding Gomez Saligan guilty of the special complex crime of "rape with homicide" as indicted, and sentencing him to death.

In a decision promulgated on November 29, 1972 2 penned by then Associate Justice Fred Ruiz Castro, this Court found and held that "the trial Court, far from approximating the model of conduct We outlined in People vs. Apduhan (L-19491, August 30, 1968, 24 SCRA 798), proceeded with inordinate...