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PEOPLE vs Ramon Dagangon, etal.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RAMON DAGANGON, VEDASTO LAGAPA, MARIA LAGAPA, ONCIANG LAGAPA, JUANITO PETALINO, PEDRO ELLANA JR., ONE alias "DANNY", ONE alias "GORIO," ONE alias "RAMON (ATA) MAMPINTUAN, CANDIDA MADELO, ANTONIO ALIGATO, and ONE alias "BENITO (ATA)," accused-appellants.

G.R. Nos. L-62654-58 | 1986-11-13

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J:

This is an appeal from the decision of the then Court of First Instance of Davao, Branch III, which convicted the appellants of three counts of murder and two counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention.

In the early dawn of May 18, 1978, in the remote barrio of Mapula, Paquibato, Davao City, Vicente Guillena, Sr., and his two sons, Jimmy and Vicente, Jr., were killed in a manner characterized by malevolence and brutality. After the slaying, the killers fled and took with them four members of the victim's household, namely: Benito Gallo, Alfonsa Guillena, Llewelyn Guillena and Cecile Guillena,...