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PEOPLE vs Benny Cabangcala

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BENNY CABANGCALA y ABRASIA, RENATO CABANGCALA y ABRASIA alias “RENE”, and DANILO CABANGCALA y ABRASIA alias “DANNY”, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 135065 | 2001-08-08

D E C I S I O N

MELO, J.:

Before this Court on automatic review is the judgment rendered by Branch 51 of the Regional Trial Court of the First Judicial Region stationed in Tayug, Pangasinan, sentencing to death two of herein accused-appellants, as well as the appeal of the third accused-appellant who was still a minor at the time of the commission of the crime of murder.

The Information charged as follows:

That on or about the 7th day of February, 1997, in the evening, at Brgy. Pangangaan, municipality of Umingan, province of Pangasinan, Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, with...