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PEOPLE. Vs. Mauricio Petalcorin, etal.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MAURICIO PETALCORIN alias JUNIO BUDLAT and BERTOLDO ABAIS alias TOLDONG, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 65376 | 1989-12-29

D E C I S I O N


GANCAYCO, J.:

It was about 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon of April 18, 1979 when Joemarico Porcadilla and Bonifacio Paden were riding on a pumpboat called LOU JR from Cebu City bound for Banacan Island in the Municipality of Jetafe, Province of Bohol. The pumpboat was owned by Luis Miasco and was at that time loaded with assorted cargoes.

While negotiating the seawaters at Pandanon Island said pumpboat was bumped by another pumpboat piloted by Bertoldo Abais. Aboard said pumpboat were Mauricio Petalcorin and Paul Sagarino. Immediately thereafter, Petalcorin fired at Paden three times who was hit at the back and as a...