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Pacifico De Sagun vs. PEOPLE.

PACIFICO DE SAGUN, petitioner, vs. THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES and THE HON. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT (OF APPEALS), respondents.

G.R. No. L-53196 | 1986-07-31

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, J:

This petition seeks the reversal of the decision of the Intermediate Appellate Court (then Court of Appeals) handed down on February 7, 1980 in CA-G.R. No. 08486-CR affirming with certain modifications the decision dated June 23, 1966 of the Court of First Instance (now Regional Trial Court), Branch III in Batangas City. The dispositive portion of the trial court decision reads:

"WHEREFORE, the Court finds Pacifico de Sagun guilty beyond reasonable doubt, not of attempted rape with homicide but only of simple homicide. There being no modifying circumstances to consider, and applying the Indeterminate Sentence...