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People Vs Rolando Gaspar, Camilo Gaspar, Rodrigo Gaspar, Simon Gaspar, Romeo Gaspar, And Pantaleon Gaspar, Accused. / Rolando Gaspar, Camilo Gaspar, And Rolando Gaspar

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROLANDO GASPAR, CAMILO GASPAR, RODRIGO GASPAR, SIMON GASPAR, ROMEO GASPAR, and PANTALEON GASPAR, accused. / ROLANDO GASPAR, CAMILO GASPAR, and ROLANDO GASPAR, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 131479 | 1999-11-19

D E C I S I O N

DAVIDE, JR., C.J.:

Violence begets violence. Vener Roncesvalles (hereafter VENER) -- a mother of two and wife to Jimmy Roncesvalles learned this painful lesson too well. She lost her husband, Jimmy, in a melee of senseless violence that gripped their neighborhood at Sta. Barbara, Victoria, Tarlac in the afternoon of 2 April 1995.

Indicted for the alleged murder of Jimmy were the couple's neighbors, namely: blood brothers ROLANDO, CAMILO, RODRIGO, SIMON, ROMEO and PANTALEON, all surnamed Gaspar. The information[1] against them reads as follows:

That on or about April 2, 1995 at around 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon in...