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People vs. Escarda et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOSELITO ESCARDA, JOSE VILLACASTIN JR., HERNANI ALEGRE, and RODOLFO CANEDO, accused. / JOSE VILLACASTIN, JR., accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 120548 | 2001-10-26

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision dated September 21, 1994, of the Regional Trial Court of Cadiz City, Branch 60, in Criminal Case No. 586-S, finding accused Joselito Escarda and Jose Villacastin Jr., guilty beyond reasonable doubt of violation of the Anti-Cattle Rustling Law. In its decision, the trial court decreed:

WHEREFORE, in view of the foregoing circumstances, this Court finds both accused JOSELITO ESCARDA and JOSE VILLACASTIN, JR., guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of "Viol. of P.D. 533" (Anti-Cattle Rustling Law), and there being the presence of three generic aggravating circumstances of...