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PEOPLE vs. Romeo Yap, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROMEO YAP and HERMINIO AMAR, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-50300 | 1983-10-26

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

The accused, Romeo Yap and Herminio Amar, having been meted the death penalty for the crime of Murder, the case was elevated to this Court for automatic review.

The People's version of the facts, as set forth in the Brief filed by the Solicitor General, reads as follows:

"After drinking 'tuba' in the evening of March 11, 1976, appellants, Romeo Yap and Herminio Amar, proceeded to the house of a certain Teofilo Fernandez located at Barrio Magsikap, Rizal, Occidental Mindoro (Exhibits `G' & `H'). Upon arriving there, the two woke up and challenged Teofilo to come out of his house. The latter peeped...