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PEOPLE vs Danilo A. Balamban

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DANILO BALAMBAN y ALCANTARA and RUDY BALAMBAN, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 119591 | 1996-11-21

DAVIDE, JR., J.:.


This is an appeal from the 22 December 1994 decision 1 of the Regional Trial Court of Virac, Catanduanes, Branch 43, in Criminal Case No. 1892, finding accused-appellants Danilo Balamban and Rudy Balamban guilty of the crime of murder and sentencing "both to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua, to indemnify the heirs of Sonny Solo in the amount of Fifty Thousand (P50,000.00) Pesos as moral damages and to pay the costs."

The information, to which the accused-appellants entered a plea of not guilty upon arraignment, 2 reads as follows:

That on or about the 5th day of May, 1992 at around 11:30 o'clock [sic] in the...