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PEOPLE vs PO3 Patalinghug, Pasilaban and Gordo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PO3 SAMSON PATALINGHUG, BENITO PASILABAN and RONALDO GORDO @ Raul, accused-appellants.

G.R. Nos. 125814-15 | 1999-11-16

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision1 [Penned by Presiding Judge Leonardo B. Cañares.] rendered on November 23, 1995, by the Regional Trial Court of Cebu City, Branch 10, in Criminal Case Nos. CBU-35594 and CBU-35595, which found accused-appellants PO3 Samson Patalinghug, Benito Pasilaban and Ronaldo Gordo, guilty of two counts of murder.

On April 14, 1994, Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Arturo Cabaron filed two informations against appellants. One information charged them with the murder of SPO1 Romeo Labra, thus:

"That on the 11th day of April, 1994 at around 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon, more...