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PEOPLE vs Werba

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. DOMINADOR WERBA Y RICAFORT alias DOMING also known as DOMINGO WERBA, appellant.

G.R. No. 144599 | 2004-06-09

D E C I S I O N




CORONA, J.:

For automatic review is the decision[1] dated May 15, 2000 of the Regional Trial Court of Lucena City, Branch 55, finding appellant Dominador Werba guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of robbery with homicide and imposing upon him the supreme penalty of death.

Four years earlier, or on May 15, 1996, an Information was filed against appellant charging him with robbery with homicide allegedly committed as follows:

That on or about the 1st day of April, 1996, at Barangay Arawan, in the Municipality of San Antonio, Province of Quezon, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court,...