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PEOPLE vs. Felicito Tawat, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FELICITO TAWAT and LEO TAWAT, accused. FELICITO TAWAT, accused whose death sentence is under review.

G.R. No. L-62871 | 1984-05-25

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

This is an automatic review of the decision of the Court of First Instance of Catanduanes, finding Felicito Tawat and Leo Tawat guilty of robbery with triple homicide, sentencing Felicito to death and Leo to an indeterminate penalty within the range of reclusion temporal and ordering them to pay solidarily damages of P32,000 to each set of heirs of the three victims, Bernarda Salvador, Lito Siao and Jose Magdaraog (Crim. Case No. 927.) Leo did not appeal.

In the morning of January 23, 1980, Andrea Magdaraog Siao and her nephew, Luis Magdaraog, who were residing in the barrio proper of Agban, Baras,...