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Wacoy y Bitol vs. People and Quibac y Rafael vs. People

GUILLERMO WACOY Y BITOL, PETITIONER, VS. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, RESPONDENT. JAMES QUIBAC Y RAFAEL, PETITIONER, VS. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 213792 and G.R. No. 213886 | 2015-06-22

FIRST DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N

PERLAS-BERNABE, J.:

Assailed in these consolidated petitions for review on certiorari[1] are the Decision[2] dated December 6, 2013 and the Resolution[3] dated July 21, 2014 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR No. 34078, which, inter alia, found petitioners Guillermo Wacoy y Bitol (Wacoy) and James Quibac y Rafael (Quibac) guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Homicide.

The Facts
 
In an Information dated June 10, 2004, Wacoy and Quibac were charged with the crime of Homicide, defined and penalized under Article 249 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC), before the Regional Trial Court of...