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PEOPLE vs Willy Yang

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. WILLY YANG, appellant.

G.R. No. 148077 | 2004-02-16

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

For our automatic review is the judgment[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 18, dated March 13, 2001, in Criminal Case No. 00-181180, the fallo of which reads:

WHEREFORE, the accused, Willy Yang (or Yang Yunghi) is hereby convicted of the crime of violation of Section 15,[2] Article III in relation to Section 21[3] of Article IV of R.A. 6425, as amended by R.A. 7659, involving 4.450 kilograms of shabu with the aggravating circumstance of the offense having been committed by an organized/syndicated crime group, and sentenced to suffer the penalty of death by lethal injection and to pay a fine...