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PEOPLE vs Armando Reanzares

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARMANDO REANZARES* also known as ARMANDO RIANZARES, accused-appellant. [Accused-appellant Armando Reanzares in his handwritten letter to Judge Flordeliz Ozaeta-Navarro dated 4 August 1994 signed his name as "Armando Rianzares;" Records, People. 195-196.]

G.R. No. 130656 | 2000-06-29

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

This case is with us on automatic review of the 26 May 1997 Decision1 [Decision penned by Judge Flordelis Ozaeta-Navarro, RTC-Br. 6, Tanauan, Batangas; Rollo, pp. 26-36.] of the Regional Trial Court of Tanauan, Batangas, finding accused ARMANDO REANZARES also known as "Armando Rianzares" guilty of Highway Robbery with Homicide under PD 5322 ["Anti-Piracy and Anti-Highway Robbery Law of 1974."] and sentencing him to the extreme penalty of death. He was also ordered to pay the heirs of his victim Lilia Tactacan P172,000.00 for funeral, burial and related expenses, P50,000.00 as indemnity for death,...