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PEOPLE vs Joey Manlansing, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOEY MANLANSING y AMBROSIO, and MARIO MANLANSING y AMBROSIO, accused-appellants.

G.R. Nos. 131736-37 | 2002-03-11

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

For automatic review is the joint decision[1] dated May 2, 1997, of the Regional Trial Court of Cabanatuan City, Branch 27, in Criminal Cases No. 6150-AF and No. 6151-AF, convicting appellants of two counts of murder and sentencing them to suffer the penalty of death for each count. Appellants were also ordered to pay the heirs of the victims P250,000 for actual damages and P500,000 as moral damages for each count of murder.

Appellants are brothers. For four years they were tenants of the spouses Magin[2] and Jorja Soriano.

In an amended information dated December 30, 1994, appellants were charged with...