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PEOPLE Vs. Alberto M. Rodriguez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ALBERTO M. RODRIGUEZ, accused-appellant. The Solicitor General for plaintiff-appellee. Froilan M. Bacungan & Associates for accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 90255 | 1991-01-23

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

Accused, Alberto M. Rodriguez, was convicted by the Regional Trial Court of Pasig, Metro Manila, Branch 156, sitting as a Special Criminal Court, 1 of the crime of Murder and sentenced to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua. He now seeks a reversal of said judgment.

At around six o'clock in the morning of December 19, 1987, the dead body of Reynaldo Osal, 20 years old, a security guard, was found lying dead by the roadside at Morgan St., Phase I, Rancho Estate Subdivision, Barangay Concepcion, Marikina. The body bore a gunshot wound on the head. It was when the victim's aunt, Leticia Osal,...