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PEOPLE vs. Jesemiel Mosquerra & Jimmy Mosquerra

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JESEMIEL MOSQUERRA and JIMMY MOSQUERRA, accused. JIMMY MOSQUERRA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 129209 | 2001-08-09

D E C I S I O N

DE LEON, JR., J.:

Before us is an appeal from a judgment dated August 27, 1996 rendered by the Regional Trial Court, Branch 45, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, in Criminal Case No. R-3744 entitled "People of the Philippines v. Jesemiel Mosquerra and Jimmy Mosquerra," finding accused-appellant Jimmy Mosquerra guilty of murder beyond reasonable doubt and sentencing him to life imprisonment and to pay the heirs of the victim civil indemnity of Fifty Thousand Pesos (P50,000.00).

On August 30, 1994, an Information[1] for murder was filed against accused Jesemiel Mosquerra and herein accused-appellant Jimmy Mosquerra. The...