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People vs. Benjamin Ong y Kho

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BENJAMIN ONG y KHO and BIENVENIDO QUINTOS Y SUMALJAG, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-34497 |

EN BANC

Decision

 

FERNANDEZ, J.:

 

This is an automatic appeal from a decision of the Circuit Criminal Court, Seventh Judicial District in Criminal Case No. CCC-VII-922 Rizal, dated October 11, 1971, the dispositive part of which reads as follows:

WHEREFORE, finding the accused Benjamin Ong y Kho and Bienvenido Quintos y Sumaljag, GUILTY, beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Kidnapping with Murder as defined under Article 248 of the Revised Penal Code, in relation to Article 267 thereof, as charged in the Information, the Court hereby sentences each one of them to suffer the penalty of DEATH; to indemnify the heirs of the deceased...