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People vs. Teodoro Basay

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. TEODORO BASAY @ "DORO" and JAIME RAMIREZ @ "NEBOY", accused. JAIME RAMIREZ @ "NEBOY", accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 86941 | 1993-03-03

D E C I S I O N

DAVIDE, JR., J p:

Teodoro Basay and Jaime Ramirez were charged with Multiple Murder with Arson in a criminal complaint 1 filed on 24 March 1986 with the Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MCTC) of Pamplona-Amlan-San Jose in the Province of Negros Oriental for having allegedly killed the spouses Zosimo and Beatrice Toting and their six-year old daughter, Bombie, and for having burned the said spouses' house to conceal the crime; as a consequence of such fire, the spouses' other daughter, Manolita, was burned to death.

On 31 March 1986, the MCTC issued a warrant for the arrest of the accused; no bail was recommended. 2 It...