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PEOPLE Vs. Ruben E. Ilaoa, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RUBEN E. ILAOA and ROGELIO E. ILAOA, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 94308 | 1994-06-16

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

Pfc. Reynaldo P. Angeles was dispatched in the early morning of 5 November 1987 to Tinio St., Sta. Maria Phase I, Balibago, Angeles City, where the decapitated body of a man, later identified through his voter's identification card as Nestor de Loyola, was found in a grassy portion thereof. Apart from the decapitation, the deceased bore forty-three (43) stab wounds in the chest as well as slight burns all over the body. The head was found some two (2) feet away from the corpse.

Five persons, Ruben E. Ilaoa, Rogelio E. Ilaoa, Rodel E. Ilaoa, Julius Eliginio and Edwin Tapang, were charged for the gruesome...