Back

PEOPLE Vs. Mario B. Sorio

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIO SORIO y BALAD, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 86211 | 1990-10-17

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

Convicted of the crime of murder by the Regional Trial Court of Valenzuela, Branch 171 of the National Capital Judicial Region, the accused-appellant in the instant case raises a lone assignment of error, to wit:

"THE TRIAL COURT GRAVELY ERRED IN NOT ACQUITTING THE APPELLANT ON THE GROUND THAT HIS GUILT WAS NOT PROVED BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT (Brief of the Appellant, p. 4; Rollo, p. 42)

The records of the case were erroneously transmitted for purposes of the appeal to the Court of Appeals but were forwarded by said court to us.

The accused-appellant was charged with murder in an information dated...