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PEOPLE Vs. Joseph Supremo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOSEPH SUPREMO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 100915 | 1995-05-31

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

On 9 August 1990 the Regional Trial Court of Surallah, South Cotabato, Br. 26, found accused Joseph Supremo guilty of murder and sentenced him to reclusion perpetua 1 and to indemnify the heirs of the victim in the amount of P30,000.00. Now before us he clings to his theory of self-defense and, in the alternative, the absence of treachery.

Donald "Dodie" Funtecha succumbed to a penetrating stab wound in the abdomen. Prosecution witness Raymundo Billanes, Jr., testified that on 3 October 1988 at about four-thirty in the afternoon he was with his friends at the Ramos Place, a sing-along bar in Sto....