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PEOPLE Vs. Merlo Ramirez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MERLO RAMIREZ, accused-appellant. The Solicitor General for plaintiff-appellee. Bernardo F. Ligsay for accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 80747-48 | 1991-10-17

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

In the late afternoon of June 23, 1981, at Tayug, Pangasinan Merlo Ramirez, a sergeant of the 151st PC Company headquartered at that place, fired his pistol at former Vice Mayor Aureo ("Alo") Zaragoza III four (4) times. All four shots found their mark in various parts of the latter's body and resulted in his death within two (2) hours. The autopsy report of the Senior Resident Physician of the Eastern Pangasinan General Hospital, Dr. Felipe Cantor, 1 set out the cause of death as, "Massive intra-thoracic and intra abdominal hemorrhage due to gunshot wounds, right side chest macerating the right lobe of the...