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PEOPLE vs. Nicomedes Castro, Et Al.120 Phil. 669

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. NICOMEDES CASTRO, ET AL., accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-17465 | 1964-08-31

D E C I S I O N 


PER CURIAM: 

This is an appeal from the death sentence imposed by the Court of First Instance of Ilocos Sur, in its Criminal Case No. 3714, upon the accused Nicomedes Castro, Godofredo Basuel, and Rufino Cinco for the double murder on 21 July 1959 of the then incumbent mayor of the municipality of Cabugao, Lucio Zabala, and his wife, Petra Serna. 

At or about 7:30 o'clock in the evening of 21 July 1959, the Zabala family was taking supper at the flourescent-lighted dining room in the ground floor of their house in the aforesaid municipality. Two armed men, one in a transparent raincoat and a narrow-brim buri...