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PEOPLE Vs. Timoteo Sabal

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. TIMOTEO SABAL, alias NINIONG, ANTONIO alias DARIO, and BEN SEPADA, alias SANDY, accused. ANTONIO LASPONA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 108084 | 1995-08-14

D E C I S I O N


KAPUNAN, J.:

The accused, Antonio Laspona, appealed to the Court of Appeals the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Toledo City convicting him of the murder of Sergio Dejoras and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of imprisonment of ten (10) years and one (1) day of prision mayor to seventeen (17) years and four (4) months of reclusion temporal.

After deliberating on the appeal, the Court of Appeals ascertained that the proper penalty for the crime committed by the accused is reclusion perpetua, hence, pursuant to Section 13, Rule 124 of the 1985 Rules on Criminal Procedure as amended, it refrained from...