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PEOPLE vs. Roman Jugilon, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROMAN JUGILON, AMANCIO BALATAYO and CRISPIN JAVIER, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-25668 | 1968-05-02

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, J.P., J.: 

Sometime in the night of May 26, 1960, an aged couple, Estanislao Jugilon, 90 years old, and Emiliana Puyod, 85 years old, became the victims of a robbery-killing. Said couple, sleeping alone in their house at sitio Sandayong, barrio Casul, municipality of Sapang Dalaga, province of Misamis Occidental, were beaten with a club and/or a ball hammer, causing their subsequent death. Some money in the amount of P800.00, more or less, were taken from their place, i.e., their trunk, bamboo tubes filled with coins and small cotton bag. 

Report of the crime reached Rosalio P. Ho, the Chief of Police...