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PEOPLE vs Villa, Jr.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RODOLFO VILLA, JR. y DELGADO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 129899 | 2000-04-27

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

RODOLFO VILLA, JR. Y DELGADO appeals from the Decision of the trial court convicting him of four (4) separate crimes of Murder qualified by treachery and sentencing him to reclusion perpetua for each murder. He was also ordered to indemnify the heirs of his four (4) victims in the amount of P50,000.00 for each group of heirs or a total of P200,000.00.1 [Decision penned by Judge Leopoldo T. Calderon, Jr., RTC-Br. 75, Olongapo City.]

The antecedents: In the early morning of 22 June 1991 Dionito Fernandez was cutting grass in his yard in New Cabalan, Olongapo City. Accused Rodolfo Villa, Jr., a member of...