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PEOPLE. Vs. Leonardo Serrano

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LEONARDO SERRANO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 74657 | 1989-02-27

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ,. JR., J.:

This is an appeal from the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Lucena City, Branch 53 finding the accused Leonardo Serrano guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua, to indemnify the heirs of the deceased the amount of Twenty Thousand Pesos (P20,000.00) and to pay actual damages in the amount of P6,667.40, and moral damages in the amount of P10,000.00 without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency.

The information filed against the accused alleged:

That on or about the 23rd day of January 1983, at Barangay Masin...