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PEOPLE vs. Reynaldo Abayon, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REYNALDO ABAYON, ROGELIO VITO and JOSE AGBAS, accused-appellants. / THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOSE JUAREZ, ENRIQUE AGBAS and MARIANO ARAGON, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-36754 | 1982-05-31

EN BANC

D E C I S I O N 

GUERRERO, J:

This is an automatic review of the judgments of the Court of First Instance of Capiz, Branch III, Mambusao, finding the accused Reynaldo Abayon, Jose Agbas and Rogelio Vito in Criminal Case No. 39 and the accused Jose Juarez, Enrique Agbas and Mariano Aragon in Criminal Case No. 39-A all guilty beyond reasonable doubt as principals in the crime of Murder, and sentencing each of them to suffer the extreme penalty of death. 

The evidence on record show that on July 15, 1971, a team of P.C. officers and men exhumed the remains of an adult male in an isolated and uninhabited place within Barrio...