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PEOPLE vs Ernesto Hugo, Lorenzo Hugo and Rudy Hugo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. ERNESTO HUGO, LORENZO HUGO and RUDY HUGO, appellants.

G.R. No. 134604 | 2003-08-28

D E C I S I O N

DAVIDE, JR., C.J.:

For automatic review[1] is the decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court, Urdaneta, Pangasinan, Branch 46, in Criminal Case No. U-9368, finding appellants Ernesto Hugo, Lorenzo Hugo, and Rudy Hugo guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder and sentencing them to suffer the penalty of death and to pay the heirs of the victim Remegio Talon the sum of P23,000 as actual damages and P50,000 as damages.

After preliminary investigation, an information[3] for murder was filed on 9 October 1997. Its accusatory portion reads:

That on or about August 21, 1997, in the evening at Barangay Narra Proper,...