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People vs. Melecio Robinos

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. MELECIO ROBINOS y DOMINGO, appellant.

G.R. No. 138453 | 2002-05-29

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J.:

Where the law prescribes a penalty consisting of two indivisible penalties, as in the present case for parricide with unintentional abortion, the lesser one shall be applied in the absence of any aggravating circumstances. Hence, the imposable penalty here is reclusion perpetua, not death.

The Case

For automatic review by this Court is the April 16, 1999 Decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Camiling, Tarlac (Branch 68), in Criminal Case No. 95-45, finding Melecio Robiños[2] y Domingo guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the complex crime of parricide with unintentional abortion and sentencing him...