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PEOPLE. Vs. Danilo Punzalan

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DANILO PUNZALAN, VGET ISON, and GUILBERT CUISON, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-54562 | 1987-08-06

D E C I S I O N


GANCAYCO, J.:

This is an automatic review of the decision dated September 7, 1979, rendered by Hon. Judge Onofre L. Villaluz, Circuit Criminal Court, Pasig, Metro Manila in Criminal Case No. CCC-VII-2639-Rizal, convicting all three (3) accused-appellants of the crime of murder as charged in the information and imposing upon them the death penalty for the fatal shooting of Cpl. Maximo de los Santos of the Parañaque police force in Parañaque, Metro Manila, on June 11, 1978. The dispositive portion of the decision in the vernacular reads in full as follows:

"Sa dahilang napatunayan ng Hukuman na sina Danilo...