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PEOPLE vs. FILOMENO BARNUEVO, DEMETRIO PALACAT, and TERESITO SABALZA

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FILOMENO BARNUEVO, DEMETRIO PALACAT, and TERESITO SABALZA, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 134928 | 2001-09-28

D E C I S I O N

DAVIDE, JR., C.J.:

Pursuant to Section 13, Rule 124 of the Rules on Criminal Procedure, the Court of Appeals certified and elevated this case to us and refrained from entering its decision[1] of 12 August 1998, which affirmed the conviction of accused-appellants Filomeno Barnuevo (hereafter FILOMENO), Demetrio Palacat (hereafter DEMETRIO), and Teresito Sabalza (hereafter TERESITO) of the crime of Murder, and increased the penalty to reclusion perpetua and the indemnity to P50,000. We accepted the appeal in our resolution of 14 September 1998.

Accused-appellants were tried under an Information,[2] dated 20 December 1983,...