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Tuburan vs PEOPLE

JOHNNY REY TUBURAN, Petitioner, vs . PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Respondent.

G.R. No. 152618 | 2004-08-12

DECISION


QUISUMBING, J.:

This petition for review assails the Decision[1] dated February 28, 2002 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CR No. 24375, which affirmed with modification the Decision[2] dated December 13, 1999 of the Regional Trial Court of Iloilo City, Branch 30, in Criminal Case No. 45575.

The trial court found petitioner Johnny Rey Tuburan (Johnny Rey) guilty beyond reasonable doubt of homicide and sentenced him to suffer the indeterminate penalty of eleven (11) years of prision mayor as minimum to seventeen (17) years and four (4) months of reclusion temporal as maximum. He was also ordered to pay the heirs of the victim...