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PEOPLE vs. Cildo, Et Al

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CILDO (alias CELDO CENENTE [CALAGAN]), DIALANG (CALAGAN) and MUDA (TAGACAOLO), defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-2189 | 1950-03-31

D E C I S I O N


OZAETA, J.:

The soul is transfixed in horror by the extreme wantonness and brutality of the murders involved in this case. Two helpless women and three innocent children were attacked while asleep and butchered for a most trivial motive in their dwelling in the sitio of Sacub, barrio of Sinayawan, municipality of Sta. Cruz, Province of Davao, on the night of November 10, 1947. The victims were Cuya Daga Lim, 35; her children Emilia Lim, 9, and Eli Lim, 8; her maid-servant Constancia Bagaan, 30; and the latter's daughter, Candelaria Bagaan, 7.

The nearest neighbor of the victims was the accused Dialang, a non-Christian...