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PEOPLE vs. Diosdado Develos, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. DIOSDADO DEVELOS alias MARIANO and SANTIAGO ALDEA, JR. alias JUANITO, defendant. DIOSDADO DEVELOS alias MARIANO, defendant and appellant.

G.R. No. L-18866 | 1966-01-31

D E C I S I O N 


REGALA, J.: 

This is a review of the decision of the Court of First Instance of Iloilo imposing the death penalty on Diosdado Develos for having committed the crime of robbery with homicide. 

In the afternoon of June 19, 1961, a patrolman of the Iloilo City Police Department received a report that the store of Marcelino Tan Bon Huat located at Mabini Street of that city had not been opened for business for two days already, and that people in the vicinity had been smelling foul odor emitting therefrom. The said patrolman, accompanied by one Ta Chi of the local Chinese Association, went to the store and found...