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PEOPLE vs Carlito Alcantado

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CARLITO ALCARTADO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 119070 | 1996-08-30

MELO, J.:


Virgilio Alcartado claimed having witnessed his cousin, accused-appellant Carlito Alcartado, stab Digna Guillermo, accused-appellant's live-in partner, several times inside Virgilio's house in Danglas, Abra at about 3 o'clock on the morning of February 16, 1993. As a result, accused-appellant was charged with, and thereafter convicted by the Regional Trial Court of the First Judicial Region (Branch 2, Bangued, Abra) of the crime of murder under an Information that reads as follows:

That on or about the 16th day of February 1993, at around 3:00 o'clock A.M. at Sitio Dumeguiay, Barangay Caupasan, Municipality of Danglas,...