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PEOPLE vs Ronnie Flores

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RONNIE FLORES y PANGANIBAN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 138841 | 2001-04-04

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

Arnel Baldevieso could not have known that the "scythe of death" would soon come to fetch him. Just days before, he was enjoying himself in the idle pastime of watching a card game at a neighborhood corner.

Jocelyn Marie Baldevieso, eyewitness to the murder charge, recalled that at five o'clock in the afternoon of 15 September 1997, she was with her husband, victim Arnel Baldevieso, at San Lazaro Street, Gulod, Novaliches, Quezon City, watching "tong-its," a card game of chance, then being played by Mila Reyes, Manong Pat and Aling Lita, all known to the witness. The players were on a "papag" (wooden bed)...