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PEOPLE vs Armando Gemoya and Ronilo Tionko

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARMANDO GEMOYA, and RONILO TIONKO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 13263 | 2000-10-04

D E C I S I O N

MELO, J.:

Before us on automatic review is a joint decision of the Regional Trial Court of the Eleventh Judicial Region stationed in Davao City (Branch 15), finding accused-appellants guilty of frustrated homicide in Criminal Case No. 35,459-96, and sentencing each of them to a prison term of two years, four months, twenty-one days to eight years and one day.

The two accused-appellants were also found guilty of murder in Criminal Case No. 36,460-96, and were sentenced to suffer the death penalty. The relevant facts are summarized in the People's Brief as follows:

At about 9:00 in the evening of January 27, 1996, the...