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PEOPLE vs. Tandug

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIO TANDUG, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-1765 | 1949-05-09

D E C I S I O N

PARAS, J p:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Romblon, finding the appellant, Mario Tandug, guilty of murder and sentencing him to life imprisonment and to indemnify the heirs of the deceased Cipriano Songcang in the sum of P2,000, with subsidiary imprisonment not exceeding one-third of the principal penalty in case of insolvency, plus the costs.

Cipriano Songcang was stuck by an arrow on the left side in the evening of October 21, 1946, while he and his wife Teofista Mondoy were walking along the road not far from their house in Santa Fe, Carabao Island, Romblon. cipriano died at four...