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PEOPLE vs. Bedia

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BARTOLOME BEDIA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-2252 | 1949-05-31

D E C I S I O N

PERFECTO, J p:

The trial court found appellant Bartolome Bedia guilty of the crime of homicide and sentenced him to suffer an indeterminate penalty of from eight (8) years of prision mayor to fourteen (14) years of reclusion temporal with the accessories of the law and to indemnify the heirs of Salvador Segovia in the sum of P2,000 and to pay the costs.

Upon examination of the evidence and perusal of the brief for the prosecution and that filed by an amicus curiae, the Court of Appeals was convinced that the crime committed by appellant is that of murder and is liable to be punished with reclusion perpetua, for which...