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PEOPLE vs Elmer Salas

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ELMER SALAS y DAVID, accused-appellant

G.R. No. 115192 | 2000-03-07

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the judgment of the Regional Trial Court of San Fernando, Pampanga, Branch 45, in Criminal Case No. 6656, finding appellant Elmer Salas y David guilty of Robbery with Homicide and imposing upon him the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

The factual background of this case is as follows:

On October 14, 1992, Salas was charged in an Information filed by the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Pampanga, as follows:

"That on or about the 6th day of March 1992, at around 3:00 o'clock in the morning, in barangay San Nicolas, municipality of Mexico, province of Pampanga, Philippines and within the...