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PEOPLE vs. Karunsiang Guiapar, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. KARUNSIANG GUIAPAR and SAPAL DADAS, defendants, KARUNSIANG GUIAPAR, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-35465 | 1984-05-31

D E C I S I O N


MAKASIAR, J.:

This case comes to Us on automatic review of the decision of the Honorable David P. Avila of the Court of First Instance (CFI) of Cotabato City in Criminal Case No. 40, entitled "People of the Philippines vs. Karunsiang Guiapar and Sapal Dadas," sentencing to death Karunsiang Guiapar for robbery with homicide qualified by treachery, and aggravated by evident premeditation, abuse of superior strength, and craft.

On August 26, 1970, an information (docketed as Criminal Case No. 40) for robbery with homicide was filed in the CFI of Cotabato City as follows:

"The undersigned First Assistant Provincial Fiscal...