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PEOPLE Vs. Martina P. Macario, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARTINA MACARIO y PACATIN and NIDA LASAGAN, accused. MARTINA MACARIO y PACATIN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 109616 | 1995-01-25

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

To a casual observer, accused-appellant Martina Macario y Pacatin can hardly play the devious role of a dealer of illicit drugs. She is, after all, just a young and plain barrio housewife with five children to boot. One would have expected then that she devoted her time to domestic preoccupations and in tending to her brood. Instead, it turned out that she had succumbed to the virus of cupidity. She was apprehended in the act of selling around twenty-one kilos of marijuana.

Appellant was indicted on August 30, 1990 in the Regional Trial Court of Baguio City, 1 together with accused Nida Lasagan who has...