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PEOPLE vs. Pablito Domasian, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PABLITO DOMASIAN AND DR. SAMSON TAN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 95322 | 1993-03-01

D E C I S I O N

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The boy was detained for only about three hours and was released even before his parents received the ransom note. But it spawned a protracted trial spanning all of 8 years and led to the conviction of the two accused. 1

The victim was Enrico Paulo Agra, who was 8 years old at the time of the incident in question. The accused were Pablito Domasian and Samson Tan, the latter then a resident physician in the hospital owned by Enrico's parents. They were represented by separate lawyers at the trial and filed separate briefs in this appeal.

The evidence of the prosecution showed that in the morning of March 11,...