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PEOPLE vs. Eleseo Cheng, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. ELESEO CHENG, ALEJANDRO MALUBAY, and SALVADOR SIOCO, accused. ELESEO CHENG, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 120158-59 | 1997-09-15

D E C I S I O N


MELO, J.:

Convicted on two counts of murder are appellant Eleseo Cheng and co-accused Salvador Sioco (who later escaped from detention) in a judgment, the dispositive portion of which reads:

WHEREFORE, in the light of the foregoing considerations, the Court finds

1. In Criminal Case No. 89-73804 the accused, ELESEO CHENG and SALVADOR SIOCO, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of MURDER, as defined and penalized under Article 248, Paragraph 1, Revised Penal Code, and as charged in the aforequoted information and, accordingly, hereby sentences each of them to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua with the...