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PEOPLE Vs. Eduardo M. Austria

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EDUARDO AUSTRIA y MONTA?O, JAIME DE LA TORRE y PAHILUNA and PABLO AUSTRIA y CAMELLOSO, accused-appellants. The Solicitor General for plaintiff-appellee. Kenneth M. Barredo for Jaime dela Torre. Joselito R. Delfin for Eduardo Austria and Pablo Austria.

G.R. No. 55109 | 1991-04-08

D E C I S I O N


BIDIN, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision * dated March 18, 1980 of the then Circuit Criminal Court, 12th Judicial District, Bacolod City, finding accused-appellants Eduardo Austria, Pablo Austria and Jaime dela Torre guilty of the crime of robbery with homicide and sentencing them to suffer the penalty of death, to jointly and severally indemnify the heirs of deceased Tomas Azuelo in the amount of P12,000.00 and to pay the costs Rollo, pp. 12-13)

It appears from the records that in the morning of August 10, 1975, the police dug out of the ground in a sugarcane field in sitio Palanas, Sagay, Negros Occidental, the...