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PEOPLE vs. Rufino Sagun, Jr., et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RUFINO SAGUN, JR. AND JIM SAGUN, accused, RUFINO SAGUN, JR., accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 86816 | 1990-05-14

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

We uphold the judgment of the Regional Trial Court of San Carlos City, Pangasinan, Branch 56, 1 convicting Rufino Sagun, Jr. of the crime of Murder and sentencing him to suffer "life imprisonment."

The evidence for the prosecution discloses that at about 9:30 o'clock in the evening of 30 January 1982, prosecution witnesses, Joseph Camacho and Rafael Gabriel, with one Alfredo Roque, went to San Gabriel I, Bayambang, Pangasinan, to attend a pre-nuptial dance at the house of a townmate who was to be married the following day. Thereat, they saw from a distance the victim Lito Roque, who had arrived...