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PEOPLE vs Gregorio Geral & Marcos Usnan

People of the Philippines, appellee, vs. GREGORIO GERAL y FERNANDEZ AND MARCOS Usnan y Bustamante, appellants. / Loreto Santan (at large), accused.

G.R. No. 145731 | 2003-06-26

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

On automatic review is the Decision of the Regional Trial Court of Davao City finding the accused GREGORIO GERAL Y FERNANDEZ and MARCOS USNAN Y BUSTAMANTE, in conspiracy with accused Loreto Santan, who remains at large, GUILTY of Robbery with Homicide for having forcibly carted away assorted articles belonging to one Mary Ann Estoce, and in pursuance of such felonious deed, slashed the throat of her grandmother Josefina Estoce which caused her death. Accordingly, accused Geral and Usnan were each sentenced to suffer the penalty of "reclusion perpetua to death" and ordered to indemnify solidarily the heirs...