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PEOPLE vs Capili

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROMEO CAPILI y TAGUDAR, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 130588 | 2000-06-08

D E C I S I O N


MELO, J.:

The judgment rendered by Branch 5 of the Regional Trial Court of the Second Judicial Region, stationed in Tuguegarao, Cagayan imposing the death sentence upon accused-appellant for the heinous crime of murder is before this Court on automatic review. A perusal of the record brings to mind the legal maxim: "mas vale que queden sin castigar dies reos presuntos, que se castigue uno inocente" (People vs. Cunanan, 19 SCRA 769 [ 1967]).

Accused-appellant was charged in an Information pertinently reading as follows:

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