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PEOPLE Vs. Alejo M. Cuyo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ALEJO CUYO y MORTERO and FELIX BUEN y PAREDES, accused-appellants. The Solicitor General for plaintiff-appellee. Pedro G. Peralta counsel de oficio for accused-appellants. Miguel T Gualberto for Alejo Cuyo.

G.R. No. 76211 | 1991-04-30

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

One of the more established axioms in the appreciation and appraisal of proofs in criminal actions is that the defense of alibi set up by an accused cannot prevail over his positive identification by otherwise competent witnesses, 1 and is unavailing in the absence of an acceptable showing of the physical impossibility of said defendant's being at the scene of the crime at the time of its commission. 2 The correctness of the Trial Court's application of the doctrine to the case at bar is the principal question now before this Court.

The Court resolves the issue in the affirmative.

In the evening of October...