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PEOPLE vs. Florentino Abadilla, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FLORENTINO ABADILLA, ELADIO SATIRA, LEOCADIO ENTIENZA, TEODORO BANAL alias MESTISONG AETA, JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE and PETER DOE, defendants, TEODORO BANAL alias MESTISONG AETA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-34764 | 1983-03-28

D E C I S I O N


RELOVA, J.:

On March 19, 1944, at eight o'clock in the morning, Leandro Cataumber, a former vice-mayor of Pitogo, Quezon, was taken against his will and under compulsion from his house in the poblacion of Pitogo, by armed men led by Florentino Abadilla, accompanied by Teodoro Banal, Eladio Satira, Leocadio Entienza and other unidentified persons. Abadilla was armed with paltik and the others with bolos, when they brought Cataumber from his house to the mountains.

The following day, March 20, 1944, one Sergio Dionela, a friend of Cataumber, was likewise taken by armed men. While in captivity, Dionela was told by Leocadio...