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PEOPLE Vs. Maida Tomio, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MAIDA TOMIO alias SATO TOSHIO and NAKAJIMA TAGAHIRO alias YAMADA TAKAO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 74630 | 1991-09-30

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

Appellants were arrested at about 3:45 o'clock in the afternoon of 12 May 1986 at the main branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) in Makati, Metro Manila, while allegedly receiving the partial payment of the ransom money from Tatsumi Nagao, a Japanese tourist. On 15 May 1986, an Information for Kidnapping and serious illegal detention for ransom (Article 267 of the Revised Penal Code) was filed against them with the Regional Trial Court of Manila by Vivencio Dionido, Assistant City Fiscal of Manila, which was docketed as Criminal Case No. 86-45055. The accusatorial portion of the...