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PEOPLE Vs. Willie Amaguin, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. WILLIE AMAGUIN, GILDO AMAGUIN and CELSO AMAGUIN, accused. WILLIE AMAGUIN and GILDO AMAGUIN, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 54344-45 | 1994-01-10

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

The coup de main on the Oro brood sent two brothers to the mortuary and a third to medical care. The bloodbath resulted in the brothers Willie, Gildo and Celso, all surnamed Amaguin, being charged with the murder of the Oro brothers Pacifico and Diosdado. Willie and Gildo went through trial while Celso to this date remains a fugitive.

The culpability of the Amaguin brothers was recounted by Hernando Oro, a younger brother of Pacifico and Diosdado. Hernando narrated that in the afternoon of 24 May 1977, he and his brothers Diosdado and Danilo, brother-in-law Rafael Candelaria, an first cousin Sergio...