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PEOPLE Vs. Abulkhair Patamama

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ABULKHAIR PATAMAMA alias CATIYA ODTOG CAMOLO, PUKUNUM CAMOLO alias MOCADAY, DIRIMBANGAN IKO alias DIBARATUN, PAITO MANGORANGCA and BONIARA CAMOLO, accused.

G.R. No. 107938 | 1995-12-04

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

Desiring to learn if his corn plants were being destroyed by stray animals or by men, Hadji Salic Sultan Sarip decided to visit his farmland some fifty (50) fathoms away from his residence at Mapoling, Maguing, Lanao del Sur, at around 9:30 o'clock in the evening on October 1989. He asked his uncles Pangcatan Comolang and Malik Comolang (both then living with him In the same house) to accompany him. Little did the trio realize that their nocturnal excursion would result in the untimely demise of Pangcatan Comolang.

Sarip started out for his farm together with Malik Comolang only, Pangcatan Comolang having...