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PEOPLE Vs. Ernesto E. Ga, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ERNESTO GA Y ESPLANADA, ALFREDO ENDENCIO Y SALVADOR and REYNALDO RUGA Y RESURRECCION alias REYNALDO BUSTAMANTE Y MUTAS, defendants. ERNESTO GA Y ESPLANADA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 49831 | 1990-06-27

D E C I S I O N


GANCAYCO, J.:

This case involves the dastardly killing of an old couple in Forbes Park and their house mate and serious injury to a daughter in the course of a robbery of a wristwatch worth P100.00 and a transistor radio worth P60.00. It reached this Court on mandatory review of the judgment promulgated on 10 August 1977 by the Circuit Criminal Court of the Seventh Judicial District, Pasig, 1 convicting the accused of the crime of Robbery with Triple Homicide and Frustrated Homicide and imposing the penalties of three death sentences for each of the accused.

In a Resolution dated 27 August 1987 this Court en banc...