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Cornelio B. Bautista Vs. CA, et al.

CORNELIO B. BAUTISTA, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS; and THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 121683 | 1998-03-26

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

This case affirms the constant stance of this Court regarding the ascendancy of an eyewitness account over a bare denial. Such an account gains more credence when, as in the case at bar, the witness is himself a victim.

On the night of March 6, 1987, a police officer who had been pursuing a suspected felon was shot right in front of the heavily guarded Lopa Compound at No. 2300 Robert St., Pasay City. Lt. Franklin Garfin was slain in the shooting incident but his companion, Cpl. Cesar Garcia escaped unharmed. The man they were supposed to arrest, a certain Joseph Williamson Dizon, was also shot and sustained...