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PEOPLE Vs. Rudy Mosende

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RUDY MOSENDE, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 97170 | 1993-12-10

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, C. J.:

The conviction for murder subject of the present appeal rests on circumstantial evidence which, as is axiomatic, is as valid and as persuasive a foundation for conviction for a crime as direct and positive testimonial proof of the specific constitutive elements thereof.

No motive or reason for the killing here dealt with is revealed by the proofs. This is immaterial, where the evidence otherwise persuasively demonstrates who is the killer and the acts by which he has carried out his nefarious intent. This is not to say that what lies in the murky criminal mind is not of interest, specially to...