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PEOPLE Vs. Melchor B. Datingginoo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MELCHOR DATINGGINOO y BRIONES, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 95539 | 1993-06-14

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The night was still young and not at all dark. There were a hundred lights in the carnival nearby and in the houses and stores along the street. Yet all this did not deter the assailants from their wicked plan. When their prey arrived, they struck: they robbed and stabbed him, leaving him dying on the ground. And then they fled. It was over in minutes.

But the reckoning was yet to come, at least for one of them. He now comes before this Court in this appeal, to plead that he was not one of them.

On September 5, 1988, at about 8:15 in the evening, Mariano Aumentado was on his way home from his drug store at...