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PEOPLE vs. Victoriano Castro

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. VICTORIANO CASTRO y CALAGNO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 106583 | 1997-06-19

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

Assuming monstrous proportions, the drug menace is increasingly posing a threat that apparently defies solution in our society. It seems to destroy everything it touches - the addict himself, his family, his victim, the community which feels it is constantly sitting on a volcano that is bound to erupt any time and the entire country that feels helpless to lick the problem.

Accused-appellant Victoriano Castro was charged before the Regional Trial Court of Pangasinan, Branch 38 in an information dated March 21, 1991, for violation of Section 4, Article II of Republic Act No. 6425 (Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972),...