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PEOPLE vs. Roberto Vasquez

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROBERTO VASQUEZ, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 54117 | 1982-04-27

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

Roberto Vasquez appealed from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Eastern Samar, finding him and his co-accused Benito Ranoco, Arsenio Bagro and Jose Eljera guilty of murder, sentencing each of them to reclusion perpetua and ordering them to pay solidarily to the heirs of Bernardo de los Santos an indemnity of twelve thousand pesos. His three co-accused did not appeal (Criminal Case No. 535).

Between eleven o'clock in the evening of May 19 and the early morning of May 20,1978, Bernardo de los Santos, 32, a mechanic, was mortally wounded in the backyard of his residence, one of the five houses...