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PEOPLE vs Christopher Geguira, Juanito Carino & Ricardo Penaflor

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CHRISTOPHER GEGUIRA y OBIA, JUANITO CARINO y NALDOZA and RICARDO PENAFLOR y SEVILLANA, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 130769 | 2000-03-13

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

Before us is an appeal from the Decision of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Quezon City, Branch 98, dated 30 May 1997, wherein accused-appellants were convicted of the crime of murder and sentenced to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the heirs of their victim in the amount of Fifty Thousand Pesos (P50,000.00).

On 12 October 1993, Christopher Geguira and Juanito Carino were charged with the crime of murder before the aforementioned RTC under Criminal Case No. Q-93-49688. The information reads:

The undersigned accuses CHRISTOPHER GEGUIRA Y OBIA, and JUANITO CARINO Y NALDOZA, of the crime...