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PEOPLE Vs. Arcadio Manrique, Jr., Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARCADIO MANRIQUE, JR. and JOHN DOE, accused, ARCADIO MANRIQUE, JR., accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 83902 | 1993-06-08

D E C I S I O N


QUIASON, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 30, San Pablo City in Criminal Case No. 4373-SP, finding Arcadio Manrique, Jr. guilty beyond reasonable doubt of Murder and sentencing him to suffer "the supreme penalty of death. However, with the abolition of the death penalty, the penalty has to be reduced to reclusion perpetua in accordance with Article III, Section 19(1) of the 1987 Constitution." (Judgment, p. 14; Rollo, p. 51).

In said criminal case, Arcadio Manrique, Jr. and John Doe, were charged with Murder, committed as follows:

"That on or about May 21, 1985 in the City of...