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PEOPLE vs. Rosalino Pena 090 Phil 649

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROSALINO PENA, ET AL., defendants. ROSALINO PE?A, PABLO DEGRACIA, FELIX DOMINGO and MANUEL BRIONES, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-3569 | 1951-12-29

D E C I S I O N


TUASON, J.:

This is an appeal from the Court of First Instance of Ilocos Sur, which found the appellants guilty of murder and sentenced them to reclusion perpetua and to indemnify jointly and severally the heirs of the deceased in the sum of P6,000. With the four appellants were charged as co-principals Guillermo Doña, Felix Pace and Benjamin Caliboso, but these three, not having been arrested, were not put on trial.

There is no question that Pedro Florendo was brutally tortured and slain on the date and in the manner depicted by the witnesses. But two of the appellants denied any part in the ghastly crime and the other two...