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PEOPLE vs Danilo Delima and Oscar Areo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. DANILO DELIMA (Acquitted) and OSCAR AREO, accused./ OSCAR AREO, appellant.

G.R. No. 138692 | 2003-06-16

D E C I S I O N

CORONA, J.:

This is an appeal from the Decision[1] dated October 13, 1998, of the Regional Trial Court of Catbalogan, Samar, Branch 29, in Criminal Case No. 4426, finding herein appellant, Oscar Areo, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder for killing Roberto Pilapil.

The record shows that, on September 3, 1997, Provincial Prosecutor Juan C. Latorre, Jr. filed in the Regional Trial Court of Samar an Information[2] charging Oscar Areo and his co-accused, Danilo Delima, with murder, allegedly committed as follows:

That on or about the 8th day of August, 1997, at nighttime which was purposely sought, at...