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PEOPLE vs. Ernersto Puno y Filomeno

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ERNESTO PUNO y FILOMENO, accused whose death sentence is under review.

G.R. No. L-33211 | 1981-06-29

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This is a murder case where the accused interposed as a defense the exempting circumstance of insanity.

There is no doubt that at about two o'clock in the afternoon of September 8, 1970, Ernesto Puno, 28, a jeepney driver, entered a bedroom in the house of Francisca Col (Aling Kikay), 72, a widow. The house was located in the area known as Little Baguio, Barrio Tinajeros, Malabon, Rizal.

On seeing Aling Kikay sitting in bed, Puno insulted her by saying: "Mangkukulam ka, mambabarang, mayroon kang bubuyog." Then, he repeatedly slapped her and struck her several times on the head with a hammer until she was...