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PEOPLE Vs. Solito Tena

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SOLITO TENA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 100909 | 1992-10-21

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The familiar maxim, "res inter alios acta alteri nocere non debet" ("things done between strangers ought not to injure those who are not parties to them") 1 embodied in Section 25, 2 Rule 130 of the Rules of Court furnishes basis for the appellant's acquittal in the case at bar.

On June 19, 1988, 82-year-old Alfredo Altamarino, Sr. was found dead inside the bedroom of his house located at corner Gardner and Regidor Streets, Barangay Sadsaran, Mauban, Quezon. His body, described as laid out in an "orderly" manner on his bed, bore eight (8) stab wounds, two of them in the neck and six in the chest. He also...