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PEOPLE vs. Ricarte Macariola

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RICARTE MACARIOLA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-40757 | 1983-01-24

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

Automatic review of the Decision of the Circuit Criminal Court, Seventh Judicial District, Pasig, Metro Manila, in Case No. CCC-VII-1346-Rizal, finding the accused Ricarte Macariola, a prisoner (No. 66033-P) confined at the New Bilibid Prisons, Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, guilty of the crime of MURDER for the death of Romeo de la Peña, a prisoner in the same penal institution, and sentencing the accused to suffer the capital penalty of DEATH.

The Information, dated June 1, 1973, filed against accused appellant alleged:

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"That on or about the 21st day of September, 1971, in the New...