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PEOPLE Vs. Alberto De La Cruz, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ALBERTO DE LA CRUZ y Baluga, CHARLIE TULALI y Ceria, RODOLFO TULALI y UY, MAX LACUBAN y Palattao, ELIGIO LACUBAN y Palattao, ROMEO AMORSOLO y Sabangan, 2ND LT. ARMANDO C. DOLOR, SN2 RAMON AMORSOLO y Sabangan, C2C EDGAR REFORMOSO y Hugo, C2C JAMES BARCELONA y Berona, C2C MANUEL RESUELLO y Rombaoa, and C2C VIVENCIO DEL ROSARIO y Ricafort, accused. ALBERTO DE LA CRUZ y Baluga, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 111568 | 1995-03-02

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

In the morning of 13 October 1981, a group of soldiers brought the bodies of two men to the Integrated National Police (INP) Station at Tuao, Cagayan. 1 One of the corpses, which was identified as that of Rizal Saldino, the barangay captain of Sicatna, Piat, Cagayan, bore thirteen gunshot wounds, four stab wounds, and two contusions. 2 The other, identified as that of Jaime Ceria, bore four gunshot wounds, five stab wounds, five lacerated wounds, five abrasion wounds, and three contusions. 3

For the deaths of the victims, appellant Alberto de la Cruz and co-accused Charlie Tulali, Rodolfo Tulali, Max...