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PEOPLE vs. Cresencio Doble, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CRESENCIO DOBLE, ET AL., defendants, CRESENCIO DOBLE, SIMEON DOBLE and ANTONIO ROMAQUIN, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-30028 | 1982-05-31

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

This case refers to a bank robbery committed in band, with multiple homicide, multiple frustrated homicide and assault upon agents of persons in authority, on June 14, 1966, in Navotas, Rizal. Only five of ten accused were brought to trial, the other five named only as "John Does" in the information having remained at large. Two of the five accused who stood trial, Mateo Raga and Celso Aquino were acquitted, while the trial court, the Court of First Instance of Rizal, imposed the death penalty on the appellants herein, Cresencio Doble, Simeon Doble and Antonio Romaquin. The decision of the trial court is...