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PEOPLE vs Pepito Gapasin, etal.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PEPITO GAPASIN and CALIXTO MATIAS, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 52017 | 1986-10-27

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 Isabela, Roxas branch, finding Pepito Gapasin and Calixto Matias guilty of robbery with homicide and rape and sentencing them "to suffer the extreme penalty of death, to indemnify Loreta Bernardo de Leon of P6,000.00, and the amount of P12,000.00 for the death of Eusebio de Leon, and to pay the amount of P1,733.00, without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency . . . " 1

The prosecution evidence shows that at about 8 o'clock in the evening of July 23, 1972, in Barrio Sinamar, Roxas, Isabela, the spouses Eusebio de Leon, 35,...