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PEOPLE Vs. Juan Villa

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JUAN VILLA alias "WANTOY," defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 94469 | 1993-05-11

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

Juan Villa, a peryante, denies having perpetrated the murder of Roseller (Russeller) Barrera in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur on that fateful night of June 5, 1988, on the pretext that he was then attending to his "hantak" game at the perya in another town. Arrested on April 24, 1989 in Bonifacio, Misamis Occidental where he had earlier been apprehended for the crime of robbery, 1 Villa was charged with murder for the killing of Barrera in an information dated July 21, 1989 and filed with the Regional Trial Court in Pagadian City. The information reads:

"That on or about June 5, 1988, at about 8:30 o'clock in...