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PEOPLE vs Jonahs Jabian & Jimmy Magaro

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JONAHS JABIAN y TARROSA and JIMMY MAGARO y GILLANG, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 139213-14 | 2001-04-04

D E C I S I O N

GONZAGA-REYES, J.:

Accused Jonahs Jabian y Tarrosa and his friend Jimmy Magaro y Gillang were charged with murder for the death of Jose Sammy Daza y Mangubat in a stabbing incident that occurred late in the evening of December 1, 1998. On the same occasion, Solomon Daza, Jr., brother of Jose Sammy, was stabbed by Jonahs as the latter was leaving the crime scene, Solomon sustaining an injury which would have been fatal had it not been seasonably attended to medically. Jonahs was charged also with frustrated murder.

The informations for murder against Jonahs Jabian and Jimmy Magaro, and for frustrated murder against Jonahs...