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PEOPLE vs Felipe Demate, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. FELIPE DEMATE y LOGANA alias “Dodong Morales” and DANTE MORALES (At Large), appellants.

G.R. Nos. 132310 & 143968-69 | 2004-01-20

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

In Criminal Case No. 8511, the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Batangas City, Branch 84, found appellant Felipe Demate y Logana a.k.a. "Dodong Morales" guilty of murder and sentenced him to death.[1] Hence, this instant automatic review[2] of said decision, together with the trial court's supplemental decision,[3] dated January 15, 1998, which found co-appellant Dante Morales guilty of murder and sentenced him to death in absentia.

In Criminal Case No. 8512, the trial court found appellants Felipe Demate and Dante Morales guilty of frustrated murder. Each was sentenced to suffer imprisonment of ten (10)...