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PEOPLE Vs. Felipe Natividad, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, APPELLEE, VS. FELIPE NATIVIDAD, CARMELITO NATIVIDAD, ALFREDO QUIAMBAO (AT LARGE) AND ALVIN BRUL (AT LARGE), ACCUSED, / FELIPE NATIVIDAD AND CARMELITO NATIVIDAD, APPELLANTS.

G.R. No. 151072 | 2003-09-23

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

Conspiracy as a basis for conviction must rest on nothing less than a moral certainty. The same degree of proof necessary in establishing the crime is required to support the attendance thereof, i.e., it must be shown to exist as clearly and convincingly as the commission of the offense itself.[1]

This is an appeal from the decision[2] dated June 8, 2001 of the Regional Trial Court of San Pablo City, Branch 32, in Criminal Case No. 9615-SP, convicting appellants Felipe Natividad and Carmelito Natividad of the crime of murder and sentencing them to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and to...