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PEOPLE vs Maximo Aquinde, Fajardo & Gansenia

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. MAXIMO AQUINDE, JAIME FAJARDO and MARIO GANSENIA, accused. / MAXIMO AQUINDE and MARIO GANSENIA, appellants.

G.R. No. 133733 | 2003-08-29

D E C I S I O N

CALLEJO, SR., J.:

This is an automatic review of the Decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan, Branch 46, in Criminal Case No. U-9340, convicting the appellants of murder, sentencing them to death by lethal injection, and directing them to pay, jointly and solidarily, the heirs of the victim Ricardo Rosario, Jr., P50,000 as civil indemnity; P86,000 as actual damages; and P20,000 as exemplary damages.

On September 4, 1997, an Information charging accused Jaime Fajardo and the appellants with murder was filed with the RTC of Urdaneta, Pangasinan, docketed as Criminal Case No. U-9340. The...