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PEOPLE Vs. Silferio F. Sillo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SILFERIO SILLO Y FERRER, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 91001 | 1992-09-18

D E C I S I O N


NOCON, J.:

In what would have been an otherwise perfect frame-up, the People's case falls flat on its face and the accused-appellant has to be acquitted as the poseur-buyer in the alleged buy-bust operation was never presented in court by the prosecution.

According to the People:

"On or about 8:30 o'clock in the evening of March, 18, 1987, Patrolmen Ricardo Oñes and Elmer Mabolo and Corporal Valentin Ilagan of the Vice Division of the Pasay City Police, while on duty at the Office of the Anti-Narcotics Unit, received information from an anonymous phone caller that there were pushers in the vicinity of Lakandula...