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PEOPLE vs. Romeo Corpuz, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROMEO CORPUZ, HERNANIE SOTO, DANILO CHICO, PABLITO ABASULA, ROGELIO CORPUZ, REYNALDO GODOY, RICARDO MABALOT, VICTOR BANGAYAN, FELIPE ALCERA, and MIGUEL CORO, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-36234 | 1981-02-10

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDEZ, J.:

This is an automatic review of the sentences of the Circuit Criminal Court of Pasig, Rizal, in Criminal Case No. CCC-VII-966 imposing the death penalty on all the accused.

Sometime in February 1972, Romeo Corpuz, Hernanie Soto, Danilo Chico, Pablito Abasula, Rogelio Corpuz, Reynaldo Godoy, Ricardo Mabalot, Victor Bangayan, Felipe Alcera and Miguel Coro, all prisoners at the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinglupa, Rizal, were charged with murder and frustrated murder in the following information:

"That on or about December 30, 1970, in the New Bilibid Prison, Muntinglupa, Rizal, Philippines and within the...