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PEOPLE vs. Feliciano Munoz, et al. [ SEPARATE OPINION ]

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FELICIANO MUNOZ and JUSTO MILLORA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-38016 | 1981-09-10

Separate Opinions

MAKASIAR, J., dissenting:

The use of motor vehicle should be appreciated as an aggravating circumstance. It is patent from the record that appellant Muñoz and his co-accused Millora, both security men of the then mayor of San Carlos City, Pangasinan, purposely utilized the police patrol jeep ("police patrol" presumably painted on its sides) not only to facilitate their search for the victim, whose whereabouts on the day of the murder they inquired from Pat. Agbuya of the San Carlos City Police Department, but also patently to insure their speedy escape from the scene of the crime as well as to discourage any resistance or...