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Sergia B. Estrella Vs. Court of Appeals

SERGIA BAUTISTA ESTRELLA, CONRADO ESTRELLA, and RODOLFO ARCALAS, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, MACARIO, NARCISO, EUGENIA, all surnamed ANCHETA, and CARMEN A. ABALAR, respondents.

G.R. No. 44902 | 1989-04-20

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

An old woman was killed twenty-two years ago. Her killing has so far gone unpunished, her heirs' plea for redress so far unanswered. It is time that justice is done.

The victim was Mauricia Baraceros. On January 21, 1967, in Barrio San Bartolome, Rosales, Pangasinan, she was run over by a power wagon being then driven by Rodolfo Arcalas. She suffered injuries resulting in cerebral hemorrhage and died almost instantly.

The police conducted an investigation of the incident shortly after its occurrence in the course of which Arcalas declared in a sworn statement that it was the power wagon he was operating...