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PEOPLE vs Rodolfo Operana, Jr.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RODOLFO OPERANA, JR., accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 120546 | 2000-10-13

D E C I S I O N


PURISIMA, J.:

An errant husband stands charged with the crime of parricide. He was convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence and meted the supreme penalty of death.

After a careful study, the Court finds all the elements of circumstantial evidence necessary for conviction present here. Proof beyond reasonable doubt does not really mean the degree of proof excluding the possibility of error and producing absolute certainty. Only moral certainty or "that degree of proof which produces conviction in an unprejudiced mind" is required. [1]

Chronology of events:

Appellant Rodolfo Operaña, Jr. and the deceased Alicia Operaña...