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People vs. Calonge y Verana

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus DIONISIO CALONGE y VERANA, Accused-Appeellant.

G.R. No. 182793 | 2010-07-05

DECISION

VILLARAMA, JR., J.:

For review is the Decision[1] dated November 29, 2007 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR.-H.C. No. 01516 which affirmed with modification the Joint Decision[2] dated August 10, 2005 of the Regional Trial Court of Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Branch 27 in Criminal Case Nos. 4077-4080 finding the above-named accused-appellant guilty beyond reasonable doubt of parricide and frustrated parricide.

The facts as culled from the records:

Rosita A. Calonge was appellant's legitimate wife, with whom he had three (3) children, namely: Melody, Dony Rose and Kimberly whose respective ages at the time of the incident...