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PEOPLE vs Elpidio and Elena Hernando

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs., ELPIDIO HERNANDO and ELENA ABAN HERNANDO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 125214 | 1999-10-28

D E C I S I O N


PARDO, J.:

The case before the Court is the appeal of accused spouses Elpidio Hernando and Elena Aban Hernando from the decision1 [In Criminal Case No. 95-146895, dated June 13, 1996, Judge Romulo A. Lopez, presiding.] of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 34, Manila, convicting each of them of estafa under Article 315, paragraph 2 (d) of the Revised Penal Code, and sentencing them "to each suffer imprisonment of thirty (30) years of "reclusion perpetua" and to indemnify complaint Johnny Sy the sum of P700,000.00.

On September 20, 1995, complainant Johnny Sy filed the Office of the City Prosecutor, Manila, a...