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People vs. Honorio Tibon y Deiso

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus HONORIO TIBON y DEISO, Accused-Appeellant.

G.R. No. 188320 | 2010-06-29

D E C I S I O N


VELASCO, JR., J.:

Parricide is the most terrible and unnatural of crimes.[1]

It is said that, in Romulus' time, there was no penalty for parricide because it was considered a crime too evil ever to be committed. While parricide in those days referred to the murder of one's own parent or ascendant, the killing of one's own offspring, which the term's modern meaning now includes, is equally horrendous and deserving of the stiffest penalty.

This is an appeal from the February 25, 2009 Decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR-H.C. No. 01406, which affirmed the August 2, 2005 Decision in Criminal Case Nos....