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PEOPLE vs Efipania Dela Cruz Go (At Large) And Riz Jarlos Y Mateo, Accused. / Riz Jarlos Y Mateo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EFIPANIA DELA CRUZ GO (at large) and RIZ JARLOS Y MATEO, accused. / RIZ JARLOS Y MATEO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 140897 | 2003-02-19

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

For automatic review is the decision[1] dated August 31, 1999 of the Regional Trial Court of Marikina City, Branch 272, in Criminal Case No. 98-2397-MK, which found the accused-appellant Riz Jarlos y Mateo guilty of the murder of Ronald Beda Pillejera[2] and sentenced him to suffer the supreme penalty of death. He was also ordered to pay the victim's heirs P47,500 actual damages, P50,000 indemnity and P50,000 moral damages and to pay the costs of suit.

The facts of the case are as follows:

In an Information dated March 20, 1998, Jarlos, together with his co-accused Go, were charged with the crime of...