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PEOPLE vs Romulo Versoza, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROMULO VERSOZA y GARCIA and JERRY AVENDA?O y MENDOZA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 118944 | 1998-08-20

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

This is an appeal from the 11 November 1994 Decision in Criminal Case no. 14940 of the Regional Trial Court of Malabon, Branch 72,[1] finding appellants Romulo Versoza y Garcia and Jerry Avendaño y Mendoza, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of highway robbery with homicide as defined and penalized under Presidential decree No. 532 and imposing upon them the penalty of life imprisonment and the payment of civil indemnity in the amount of P50,000.00, interment of P70,000.00, moral damages of P100,000.00 and the costs of suit.

The Information[2] dated 5 May 1994 charged:

That on or about the 21st day of...