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PEOPLE vs Larry Caritativo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. LARRY CARITATIVO alias "LARRY," appellant.

G.R. Nos. 145452-53 | 2003-06-10

D E C I S I O N

CORONA, J.:

Before us on automatic review is the decision,[1] dated May 12, 2000, of the Regional Trial Court of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, Branch 46, in Criminal Case No. R-4112, finding the appellant, Larry Caritativo, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder and sentencing him to suffer the supreme penalty of death.

The information, dated January 23, 1997, charging the appellant, Larry Caritativo, of the crime of murder read as follows:

That on or about the 28th day of April, 1995 at around 3:30 o'clock in the morning, in Sitio Bulangcog, Barangay Iriron, Municipality of Calintaan, Province of...