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PEOPLE vs. Torres

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ELIGIO TORRES, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-2064 | 1949-05-09

D E C I S I O N

PERFECTO, J p:

Appellant Eligio Torres was found by the trial court guilty of the crime of treason and was sentenced to suffer the penalty of death, to pay a fine of P20,000, to indemnify in the sum of P1,000 the heirs of each of the deceased Castro de la Vega, Ponciano de la Chica, Mariano Alfonso and Domingo Jimenez, to indemnify Florencio Sebastian and Jose Lim in the amounts of P3,020 and P5,700, respectively, and to pay the costs.

On appeal, counsel de oficio alleges that he People's Court erred in giving greater weight and credit to the evidence of the prosecution than that of the defense in finding that it was...