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PEOPLE vs Osmundo Fuertes, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. OSMUNDO FUERTES @ "Dodo"; AGUSTIN LUYONG @ "Jack" and "Jackie Pangalan" (at large); EDGAR GIBONE; FRANCISCO SALVA @ "Bochoy"; and ROLANDO TANO @ "Boy Negro" and "Brando", accused, / OSMUNDO FUERTES, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 95891-92 | 2000-02-28

D E C I S I O N

YNARES_SANTIAGO, J.:

For gathering firewood and quenching their thirst with coconuts gathered from a tree inside a hacienda managed by Osmundo Fuertes, Napoleon Aldeguer, aged 14, and Mateo Aldeguer, aged 16, were bound, gagged, brutally hacked to death and thrown at the bottom of a dried creek.

Indicted for the dastardly deeds were Osmundo Fuertes @ "Dodo", Agustin Luyong @ "Jack" and "Jackie Pangalan", Edgar Gibone, Francisco Salva @ Buchoy, and Rolando Tano @ "Boy Negro" and "Brando" in two (2) Informations for Murder docketed as Criminal Case Nos. 1582 and 1583.

Criminal Case No. 1582 charges -

"That on or about...