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PEOPLE Vs. Jimmy Ponce Jamon.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JIMMY PONCE JAMON, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 141942 | 2003-10-13

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

Appellant Jimmy Ponce Jamon seeks the reversal of the decision[1] dated January 20, 2000, of the Regional Trial Court, Quezon City, Branch 86, in Criminal Case No. Q-98-79087 convicting him of murder, sentencing him to reclusion perpetua, and ordering him to pay the amount of seventy five thousand pesos (P75,000.00) as civil indemnity and thirty thousand pesos (P30,000.00) as moral damages.

In an information dated September 15, 1998, appellant was charged with murder allegedly committed as follows:

That on or about the 9th day of July, 1998, in Quezon City, Philippines, the said accused, with intent to...