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PEOPLE Vs. Mario Ablao, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIO ABLAO, ISAGANI SACOP, LEOPOLDO DE GUZMAN, PEDRO LADIANA, ZENON SAMONTE, ALFREDO DEL MUNDO, BRUNO ABLAO, ISIDORO GALEMA, DANILO MERCADO, RUSTICO LIWANAG, FRANCISCO BALDEMECA, HECTOR SAMONTE and DAVID ABLAO, accused, MARIO ABLAO, ISAGANI SACOP, LEOPOLDO DE GUZMAN, PEDRO LADIANA, ZENON SAMONTE, and ALFREDO DEL MUNDO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 70556 | 1990-12-26

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

In the evening of July 6, 1980, Hon. Lotus Sobejana, Sr., Municipal Judge of Lumban, Laguna, and his seven-year old son, Lotus, Jr., were shot and killed.

They died almost instantly from multiple gunshot wounds sustained on different parts of their bodies. Thirteen (13) persons were indicted in the then Circuit Criminal Court, Laguna, as co-conspirators in the two killings, categorized by the Provincial Fiscal as double murder qualified by treachery and evident premeditation. 1

The persons indicted were the six (6) appellants herein Mario Ablao, Isagani Sacop, Leopoldo de Guzman, Pedro Ladiana, Zenon...