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Fidelino Garcia vs CA, Presiding Judge of the RTC, Gumaca, Quezon, Branch 62 and PEOPLE

FIDELINO GARCIA, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, THE PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE RTC, GUMACA, QUEZON, BRANCH 62, and PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 124036 | 2001-10-23

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal by certiorari is the decision of the Court of Appeals dated February 22, 1996, in CA-G.R. CR No. 13358. The decision affirmed the judgment of the Regional Trial Court of Gumaca, Quezon, Branch 62 in Criminal Case No. 2307-G, finding petitioner Fidelino Garcia with his co-accused Leopoldo Garcia and Wilfredo Garcia guilty of homicide.

In an Information dated December 13, 1983, Fidelino Garcia, Leopoldo Garcia, and Wilfredo Garcia were charged with murder allegedly committed as follows:

That on or about the 30th day of July 1983, at Barangay II, in Poblacion, Municipality of Mulanay, Province of...