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People vs. Ruben M. Calijan

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RUBEN CALIJAN Y MAGALSO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 94592 | 1993-09-28

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

Smoking, it is said, is hazardous to health. More, in some peculiar way, it can be a death knell. This, the family of the late Gregorio Belnas realized when, smoking in what appeared to be a ritual of friendship, he puffed his last. For, in that tobacco smoking session, his erstwhile friend who invited him, Ruben Calijan y Magalso, knifed Gregorio to death.

The evidence for the government tends to establish that at about 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon of 30 June 1989, in Sitio Pinanginan, Barangay Obat, Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental, Arnolfo Baya was weeding at the sugarcane field. Ruben Calijan, a 39-year...