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PEOPLE vs Ireneo Godoy

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. IRENEO GODOY, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 140545 | 2002-05-29

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

On appeal before this Court is the decision, dated June 16, 1998, of the Regional Trial Court of Lucena City, Branch 54, in Criminal Case No. 94-639, the dispositive portion of which reads:

WHEREFORE, premises considered, this Court finds the accused Ireneo Godoy y Ani alias "Rene" GUILTY beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Murder defined and punished under Article 248 of the Revised Penal Code and hereby sentences the accused to suffer imprisonment of RECLUSION PERPETUA with all the accessories of the law, and to pay the heirs of the deceased Alexander Carandang the following amounts:

a) P50,000.00 -...