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PEOPLE Vs. Ruperto San Gabriel

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RUPERTO SAN GABRIEL "UPENG" or "JOJO", defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 110103 | 1994-08-04

D E C I S I O N


MELO, J.:

When Rolando Rodela sipped his coffee at around 6:30 in the evening of July 27, 1989, little did he know that it was his last cup before the next crack of dawn.

He sat on the chair facing the table near the open door savoring the taste of the hot beverage while his mother prepared supper in the kitchen approximately one meter from where her son was when the assailant passed by Rolando's sister at the terrace fronting the house, barged his way in, and repeatedly stabbed Rolando Rodela who sustained three wounds. This mayhem was perpetrated despite the presence of the victim's mother, Maria Areglo Rodela, and...