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PEOPLE vs. Escudero

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SALVADOR ESCUDERO, Sr., SALVADOR ESCUDERO, Jr., appellants.

G.R. No. 41235 | 1934-12-22

D E C I S I O N


VICKERS, J:

Meliton Hagos, municipal president of Casiguran, Sorsogon Province, was killed without warning about eight o'clock in the evening of July 25, 1932, while sitting in the sala of his house. The weapon used in the commission of the crime as a gun loaded with No. 4 shot and slugs made from galvanized iron rivets. The gun was fired from the direction of the front entrance to the house.

The municipal police and the constabulary promptly began to examine the premises and to question the people in the house of the deceased and the neighboring houses as to what they knew about the crime. The investigation was...