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PEOPLE Vs. Manuel M. Magtuloy

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MANUEL MAGTULOY Y MONTARAY, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 105671 | 1993-06-30

D E C I S I O N


NOCON, J.:

There was no eyewitness to the actual killing of the one year and five month old victim in this case. A resort to circumstantial evidence thus became a necessity. The prosecution ascertained the guilt of the accused-appellant through the testimonies of the mother of the victim, the aunt of the victim, a neighbor and the doctor, who provided facts of such nature from which the trial court was led, by a process of deductive reasoning inferred from proven facts pieced together the accused-appellant's guilt.

The accused-appellant, Manuel Magtuloy y Montaray, 19 years old, was charged with the crime of murder in...