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PEOPLE vs. Ricardo Cabrera, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RICARDO CABRERA and LORETO SIPE, accused. RICARDO CABRERA, accused whose death sentence is under review.

G.R. No. L-51858 | 1985-01-31

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

Before us for automatic review is the Decision of the then Court of First Instance of South Cotabato, Branch II, at Koronadal (in Criminal Case No. 537), finding Ricardo Cabrera (the APPELLANT, for brevity) guilty of Murder with Assault upon an Agent of a Person in Authority and imposing upon him the penalty of capital punishment. His co-accused, Loreto SIPE, was found guilty of Direct Assault upon an Agent of a Person in Authority and was sentenced to "the penalty of PRISION CORRECCIONAL in its medium or 2 years, 4 months and 1 day to 4 years and 2 months period (sic);" but after crediting him with...