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Manuel Bartocillo vs CA and PEOPLE

MANUEL BARTOCILLO, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and the PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 125193 | 2001-10-23

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This petition for review seeks to reverse and set aside the decision[1] dated January 18, 1996, of the Court of Appeals, in CA G.R. CR No. 15842, affirming with modification the decision of the Regional Trial Court of General Santos City, Branch 22, finding herein petitioner guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of frustrated homicide.

The case against petitioner stemmed from an Information filed against him and his father which reads:

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That on or about the 28th day of December, 1982 in the evening thereof, more or less at Sitio Atlae, Barangay Malandag, Municipality of Malungon, Province of...