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PEOPLE vs. Horacio, Apolinario Jardiniano and Roldolfo Ortega

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. HORACIO JARDINIANO, APOLINARIO JARDINIANO and RODOLFO ORTEGA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-37191 | 1981-03-30

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

Automatic appeal from the Decision of the Court of First Instance of Oriental Mindoro, Branch II, in Criminal Case No. R-57, convicting the accused Apolinario Jardiniano, his son Horacio Jardiniano, and his son-in-law Rodolfo Ortega, of Murder, and sentencing them to death.

The victim, Balud, a 60-year old Mangyan, was killed on the night of February 11, 1970 at around 10:00 o'clock outside his house at Sitio Siangi, Barrio Lisap, in the Municipality of Bongabon, Oriental Mindoro. The autopsy performed by Dr. Fernando A. Viloria, Municipal Health Officer of Bongabon, Oriental Mindoro, revealed that...