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People vs. Fausta Gonzales

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FAUSTA GONZALES, AUGUSTO GONZALES, CUSTODIO GONZALES, SR., CUSTODIO GONZALES, JR., NERIO GONZALES and ROGELIO LANIDA, accused, CUSTODIO GONZALES, SR., accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 80762 | 1990-03-19

D E C I S I O N

SARMIENTO, J.:

In a decision1 dated October 31, 1984, the Regional Trial Court of Iloilo, Branch XXXVIII (38), in Criminal Case No. 13661, entitled "People of the Philippines vs. Fausta Gonzales, Augusto Gonzales, Custodio Gonzales, Sr., Custodio Gonzales, Jr., Nerio Gonzales, and Rogelio Lanida," found all the accused, except Rogelio Lanida who eluded arrest and up to now has remained at large and not yet arraigned, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder as defined under Article 248 of the Revised Penal Code.

They were sentenced "to suffer the penalty of imprisonment of twelve (12) years and one...