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PEOPLE. Vs. Feliciano Munoz

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FELICIANO MU?OZ, alias "Tony," et al., accused, MARVIN MILLORA, TOMAS TAYABA, alias "Tamy Tayaba" and JOSE MISLANG, defendants-appellants.

G.R. Nos. L-38968-70 | 1989-02-09

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

Of the four persons convicted in this case, one has not appealed and thus impliedly accepted his sentence. The others have questioned their conviction and insist that they are innocent. The prosecution did not think so, and neither does the Solicitor General now. The brief for the appellee would affirm the finding of guilt and in fact even increase the penalty.

The prosecution presented a bizarre case of arbitrary condemnation and instant punishment meted out by what appear to be the members of a private army. Eleven persons, most of them bodyguards of the town mayor, went out in a jeep at the behest of one of...