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PEOPLE Vs. Hector Maqueda, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. HECTOR MAQUEDA @ PUTOL, and RENE SALVAMANTE (at large), accused, HECTOR MAQUEDA @ PUTOL, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 112983 | 1995-03-22

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

As against a bustling city life, Britisher Horace William Barker, a consultant of the World Bank, and his Filipino wife, Teresita Mendoza, chose the peace and quiet of a country home not any near the metropolis of Manila or its environs, but in the rugged and mountainous terrain of Tuba, Benguet. Perhaps they thought they were in a veritable paradise, beyond the reach of worldly distractions and trouble. That illusion was shattered when in the early morning of 27 August 1991, in the sanctity of their own home, Horace was brutally slain and Teresita badly battered with lead pipes on the occasion of a...