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PEOPLE vs Manriquez and Zamora

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. HERACLEO MANRIQUEZ y ALIA and GREGORIO CANOY y ZAMORA @ GREG; HERMINIA HERRERA @ HERMIE, BUTONG DAE, and PAT. PAULINO ROMARATE (at large), accused. / GREGORIO CANOY, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 122510-11 | 2000-03-17

D E C I S I O N

DAVIDE, JR., C.J.:

This is an appeal from the 27 April 1995 decision1 [Original Record (OR), Criminal Case Nos. 19, 615-90, 19, 616-90, 75-90; Rollo, 23-38. Per Judge Romeo Marasigan.] of the Regional Trial Court of Davao City, Branch 16, finding accused Heracleo Manriquez (hereafter HERACLEO) and Gregorio Canoy (hereafter GREGORIO) guilty of two counts of murder. They were indicted in two separate informations, together with Herminia Herrera and Butong Dae, who both remain at large, for stabbing to death Ernesto Gabuyan (hereafter GABUYAN) and Ferdinand Duay (hereafter DUAY) on 12 January 1990. The informations were...