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PEOPLE vs Eugenio Adrales & Jessie Panao

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EUGENIO ADRALES and JESSIE PANAO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 132152 | 2000-01-19

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

The case before the Court calls for an automatic review of the decision, dated 09 July 1997, of the Regional Trial Court ("RTC") of Carigara, Leyte, Branch 13, in Criminal Case No. 2512, convicting Jessie Panao and Eugenio Adrales of the crime of murder and sentencing each of them to the penalty of death.

On 18 March 1996, Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Cesar Merin filed with the Carigara RTC an INFORMATION charging Eugenio Adrales and Jessie Panao with murder, as follows:

"That on or about the 25th day of January, 1996, in the municipality of Tuñga Province of Leyte, Philippines and within the...