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PEOPLE vs Jaime Carpio, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JAIME CARPO, OSCAR IBAO, WARLITO IBAO and ROCHE IBAO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 132676 | 2001-04-04

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

The accused might as well have borrowed the famous line of Shakespeare - "How this world is given to lying!"[1] - when they impute error to the trial court for relying on the testimony of a single witness in convicting them of multiple murder complexed with attempted murder for the death of Florentino Dulay, Norwela Dulay and Nissan Dulay, and the wounding of Noemi Dulay.[2]

The challenged testimony of witness Ruben Meriales follows:[3] On 25 August 1996 at about 8:00 o'clock in the evening while he was watching television with his family his dogs barked. His mother who was apprehensive that their cow might...