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People vs. Romulo Tuniaco

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus ROMULO TUNIACO, JEFFREY DATULAYTA and ALEX ALEMAN, Accused. ALEX ALEMAN, Appeellant.

G.R. No. 185710 | 2010-01-19

DECISION

ABAD, J.:

This case is about the requirements of a valid extrajudicial confession and the establishment of the existence of corpus delicti in murder cases.

The Facts and the Case

The city prosecutor of General Santos City charged the accused Romulo Tuniaco, Jeffrey Datulayta, and Alex Aleman with murder before the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of General Santos City in Criminal Case 8370.

Based on the findings of the RTC, in the morning of June 13, 1992 some police officers from the Lagao Police Sub-Station requested police officer Jaime Tabucon of the Central Police Station of General Santos City homicide division to take the statement...