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PEOPLE vs. Romeo Zaganay, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROMEO ZAGANAY and FEDERICO MANGSAT, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-34675 | 1984-01-30

D E C I S I O N


RELOVA, J.:

This is an automatic review of the decision of the then Circuit Criminal Court in Pasig, Rizal, finding Romeo Zaganay and Federico Mangsat guilty of the murder of Moises Malinis and sentencing "each one of them to suffer the penalty of DEATH; to indemnify the heirs of the victim, Moises Malinis, the amount of P12,000.00; to pay P10,000.00 as moral damages and another P10,000.00 as exemplary damages, jointly and severally; and to pay their proportionate shares of the costs." (p. 3, Decision).

About 3:00 in the afternoon of April 9, 1971, Moises Malinis, a prisoner serving sentence at the National Penitentiary...