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PEOPLE Vs. Eduardo Hernandez, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EDUARDO HERNANDEZ, MERLITO HERNANDEZ and MAXIMO HERNANDEZ alias "Putol," accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 67690-91 | 1992-01-21

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

At about eleven o'clock in the evening of May 28, 1979, the people in the house of the spouses Eligio Mendoza and Eustaquia de Rosales at barrio Bukal Norte, Candelaria, Quezon, had all retired. With said spouses in their house were their sons, Buenaventura, Narciso and Marino; Elena Magararo, Buenaventura's wife; and a visitor, Donato Tabanao, who had been invited to spend the night.

Then a male voice was heard from outside the house saying: "Tao po, kami ay alagad ng batas, puede ba kaming makapagtanong?" Elena got up to rouse her husband, Buenaventura but saw that he was already up. She saw him open a...