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PEOPLE vs PO3 Ernesto Langres

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PO3 ERNESTO D. LANGRES, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 128754 | 1999-10-13

D E C I S I O N


PUNO, J.:

Appellant PO3 Ernesto Langres of the Philippine National Police was convicted by the Regional Trial Court of Dapa, Surigao Del Norte, for the crime of Murder. He was sentenced to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and to pay the legal heirs of the victim, Teodorico Sindo, Jr., the sum of fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00) as indemnity, twenty thousand pesos (P20,000.00) for burial expenses and ten thousand pesos (P10,000.00) for moral and exemplary damages. He now seeks his acquittal on the ground that the killing was done in self-defense.

The crime1 [Information dated May 3, 1991, Original Records, p....