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PEOPLE, Plaintiff And Appellee, vs Ramon Tropa, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. RAMON TROPA y TORREFIEL, RICKY alias “ABEL” TROPA y TORREFIEL, and MARLON TROPA y TORREFIEL, accused. / RAMON TROPA y TORREFIEL, RICKY alias “ABEL” TROPA y TORREFIEL, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 139971 | 2002-01-17

D E C I S I O N

PARDO, J.:

Undoubtedly, emotions were running high in the evening of the crime. That very day, Loriana Tropa, grandmother of accused-appellants, and mother of the victim, was buried in the local cemetery.

Inebriated, accused-appellants hacked their uncle to death. The record implies that there was strife within the family, borne out by the non-attendance of the victim at his own mother's burial. The motive for the killing was not sufficiently established. However, given the categorical statements of the witnesses for the prosecution, and the clarity of the facts as laid out in the record, we uphold the ruling of the...