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PEOPLE vs. Tomas Moquiadi, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. TOMAS MOQUIADI, ET AL., defendants. POLINDO DACUCUS and PEDRO DACUCUS, defendants and appellants.

G.R. No. L-9759-61 | 1960-02-25

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.B.L., J.:

Tomas Moquiadi, Danis Bagulin, Pedro Dacucus and Polindo Dacucus were charged before the Court of First Instance of La Union with the crime of murder, in two separate informations, for the killing of Pedro Cabading and Mariano Bunagan (Criminal Cases Nos. 1297 and 1302). Polido Dacucus, one of the defendants in the murder indictments, was also accused in another information filled before the same court with the illegal possession of firearms (Criminal Cases No. 1301).

In view of the relation of facts in the three cases all were tried jointly upon agreement of the parties. After trial, the lower court...