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Gaspar Medios vs. Court of Appeals

GASPAR MEDIOS, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 79570 | 1989-01-31

D E C I S I O N


CORTES, J.:

Petitioner, Capt. Gaspar Medios, was originally charged in two separate informations for Murder relative to the deaths of PC Capt. Guillermo Viloria and Engineer Celestino Egipto. These informations were later consolidated in an Amended Information dated January 26, 1981, duly admitted by the Court of First Instance on February 27, 1981 and subsequently docketed as Criminal Case No. BR. XXIV-0120, charging petitioner with the crime of Direct Assault with Double Murder. The amended information reads as follows:

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That on or about the 12th day of May, 1979, in the municipality of Roxas, province of...