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PEOPLE vs. Fulgencio Ornopia, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FULGENCIO ORNOPIA, LENLI ORNOPIA, DULCISIMO BALATUCAN alias ZOSIMO & SIMO, ESTEBAN BALATUCAN and FRUCTUOSO PEPITO, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-30837 | 1983-05-30

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

Appellants Fulgencio Ornopia, Lenli Ornopia, Dulcisimo Balatucan, Esteban Balatucan and Fructuoso Pepito were among twelve (12) accused, which included three John Does, sentenced to death by the Court of First Instance of Masbate, for the crime of robbery with homicide, the rest having been either acquitted, as in the case of Federico Arcillas and Bernabe Arnejo, or gone at large, like Benjamin Rivera and Procopio Bacunawa who failed to appear during the last part of the trial. Hence, the judgment of conviction is before this Court for review on appeal by the five (5) convicted accused.

In their appeal,...