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PEOPLE vs Allen Bustamante

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. ALLEN BUSTAMANTE, appellant.

G.R. No. 140724-26 | 2003-02-12

D E C I S I O N

CORONA, J.:

For automatic review is the "Joint-Judgment"* dated August 10, 1999 of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 25, Iloilo City, the dispositive part of which reads:

"WHEREFORE, premises considered, the court, finding the accused, Allen Bustamante, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of murder as charged in Crim. Case No. 47227 and frustrated murder as charged in Crim. Case No. 49118, hereby sentences him as follows:

1) for the first offense he is sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of death; and

2) for the second offense he is sentenced to a penalty of twenty (20) years of reclusion temporal with such accessory...