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PEOPLE vs Elizalde Culala

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, defendant-appellant, vs. ELIZALDE CULALA y BOGNOT, plaintiff-appellee.

G.R. No. 83466 | 1999-10-13

D E C I S I O N


PURISIMA, J.:

This is an appeal1 [Dated February 13, 1987; Original Records (O.R.), pp. 340-342.] from the Decision2 [Penned by Judge Teresita Dizon-Capulong.] dated February 1, 1987, of the Regional Trial Court of Valenzuela, Metro Manila, Branch 172, convicting appellant Elizalde Culala y Bognot of the crime of Robbery with Homicide in Criminal Case No. 4916-V-82; and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of death,3 [Commuted to reclusion perpetua by virtue of the suspension of the imposition of death penalty under the 1987 Constitution. (See People vs. Redulosa, 255 SCRA 279, p. 286, citing: Resolution dated April 30,...