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PEOPLE Vs. Gil Uy

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GIL UY and ROGELIO JOLITO (at large), accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 84275 | 1992-02-14

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, J.:

This is an appeal from the March 15, 1988 decision * of the Regional Trial Court of Palo, Leyte in Criminal Case No. 6586 entitled "People of the Philippines vs. Gil Uy and Rogelio Jolito", the dispositive portion of which reads:
"WHEREFORE, finding accused GIL UY guilty beyond the penumbra of moral certainty, as principal of the crime of murder defined and penalized under Article 248 of the Revised Penal Code, in relation to Par. (1) Sec. 19, Article III of the Constitution, with the aggravating circumstance of recidivism without any mitigating circumstance to offset the same, sentences Gil Uy to Reclusion...