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PEOPLE vs. Macabuhay

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GORGONIO MACABUHAY, JUAN MACABUHAY, MAXIMO MACABUHAY, ALEJANDRO SALVADOR, and PERFECTO BACASNO, defendants-appellants.

CA. No. 332 | 1949-04-29

D E C I S I O N


BENGZON, J:

For having murdered Fidel Saborrido, the five appellants were sentenced, last July, in the Court of First Instance of Samar to suffer life imprisonment and to indemnify his surviving heirs.

In the municipality of Basey, same province, early in the evening of March 16, 1947, Fidel Saborrido met bloody death at the point of a bolo wielded by the accused Gorgonio Macabuhay. A few minutes before the encounter the victim was enjoying a song feast in the house of Alfredo Aclesto, in the company of Luis Graboso, Alfredo Graboso, Sofronio Distrajo and Fernando Regala. At the same time, while the five accused were...