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PEOPLE. Vs. Guillermo Egaras, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GUILLERMO EGARAS, CLETO EGARAS, and VICENTE EGARAS, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-33357 | 1988-07-29

D E C I S I O N


GRIá'O-AQUINO, J.:

The brothers Guillermo, Cleto, and Vicente Egaras, who enjoyed a reputation for notoriety in the small town of Dumarao, Capiz, were charged with murder in the Circuit Criminal Court of Roxas City in Criminal Case No. CCC-XI-97 in an
information which reads as follows:

"That on or about March 26, 1970, in Bo. Salcedo, municipality of Dumarao, province of Capiz, Philippines, within the jurisdiction of this Court, the abovenamed accused, armed with homemade shotgun, bolo and pointed weapon, respectively, with treachery, conspiring and helping one another, did then and there wilfully and feloniously...