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Peter Paul M. Aballe vs. PEOPLE, et al.

PETER PAUL ABALLE Y MENDOZA, petitioner, vs. THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE HONORABLE JUDGE BERNARDO V. SALUDARES, respondents.

G.R. No. 64086 | 1990-03-15

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, C. J.:

This is a direct appeal from the decision of the then Court of First Instance of Davao City, Branch II, finding petitioner Peter Paul Aballe y Mendoza guilty of homicide and sentencing him to an indeterminate penalty of eight (8) years and one (1) day of prision mayor to sixteen (16) years of reclusion temporal with all the accessory penalties and ordering him to indemnify the heirs of the deceased Jennie Banguis y Aquino in the amount of P12,000.00 and to pay the amount of P5,000.00 as actual and compensatory damages. 1

At around seven o'clock in the evening of November 7, 1980 in Saypon, Toril, Davao...