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PEOPLE vs. Leticia Labarias

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LETICIA LABARIAS, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 87165 | 1993-01-25

D E C I S I O N

CRUZ, J p:

It is the policy of this Court to sustain the factual findings of the trial court on the reasonable assumption that it is in a better position to assess the evidence before it, particularly the testimonies of the witnesses, who reveal much of themselves by their deportment on the stand. The exception that makes the rule is where such findings are clearly arbitrary or erroneous as when they are tainted with bias or hostility or are so lacking in basis as to suggest that they were reached without the careful study and perceptiveness that should characterize a judicial decision.

This exception is especially...