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PEOPLE vs Jaime Valenzuela, Virgilio Palma

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JAIME VALENZUELA* y PANGILINAN, and VIRGILIO PALMA (At Large), accused, / JAIME VALENZUELA y PANGILINAN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 126776 | 2002-09-05

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On February 29, 1996, the Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 5, in Criminal Case No. 90-82203, found appellant Jaime Valenzuela y Pangilinan guilty of murder, and sentenced him to reclusion perpetua and to pay the heirs of the victim, Dante Bartolome, P50,000 as civil indemnity.

His conviction stems from the information filed on February 8, 1990, by Manila Assistant Prosecutor Celedonio Balasbas, which reads:

The undersigned accuses JAIME VALENZUELA Y PANGILINAN and VIRGILIO PALMA Y INDUCTIVO of the crime of MURDER, committed as follows:

That on or about May 16, 1989, in the City of Manila,...