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PEOPLE vs. Ernesto Onavia

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ERNESTO ONAVIA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-38348 | 1983-01-27

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

On automatic review is the death sentence imposed on defendant by the Circuit Criminal Court, Seventh Judicial District, sitting in Pasig, Metro Manila, in its Criminal Case No. CCC-VII-1356, for the crime of Murder qualified by treachery and attended by evident premeditation and recidivism.

The accused is an inmate of the New Bilibid Prisons at Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, serving sentence for Robbery in Band with Double Homicide and Multiple Rape after conviction by the Court of First Instance of Cagayan on April 22, 1969 for which he was sentenced to reclusion perpetua. 1 He was a member of the...