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PEOPLE Vs. Pepito T. Penero

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PEPITO PENERO y TAGAWA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 91284 | 1992-09-03

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

It appears that the accused-appellant, who was a pedicab driver, was also offering a different kind of trip. The lower court, after trial, found him guilty of selling marijuana in violation of the Dangerous Drugs Act. He now says it was he who was taken for a ride.

The evidence for the prosecution showed that he was caught in flagrante in a buy-bust operation conducted in the morning of May 12, 1989, at Sta. Rosario Street in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila.

Cpl. Ernesto David of the Mandaluyong police had earlier that morning received a tip that there was a man selling marijuana on that street. The man's description was...