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PEOPLE Vs. Roger Genial

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROGER GENIAL and RAUL SALVA, accused. RAUL SALVA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 105692 | 1993-12-07

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

The accused-appellant herein, Raul Salva, was convicted of murder by the Regional Trial Court, Branch 32, of Surigao City in Criminal Case No. 3394 thereof and was sentenced to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and its accessory penalties, to indemnify the heirs of the victim, and to pay actual damages for burial expenses, as well as the costs.

This case goes back to an indictment for murder filed on April 16, 1991 against appellant Raul Salva and his co-accused, Roger Genial, wherein it was alleged --

"That on the 1st day of March 1991, at or about 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon, in Brgy. Roxas,...