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PEOPLE vs. Jose Alto, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOSE ALTO, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-18660 and L-18661 | 1968-11-29

D E C I S I O N 


CASTRO, J.: 

On December 7, 1956 an indictment for multiple murder (Criminal Case 4167) and another for frustrated multiple murder (Criminal Case 4181) were filed with the Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija. 

In Criminal Case 4167, Jose Alto, Bienvenido Almuete, Melencio Gregorio, Melchor de Leon, Melencio Marcos, Pedro Paras and Ismael Dungao were charged with multiple murder, committed, in the language of the information, as follows: 

"That on or about the 15th day of December, 1951, in the municipality of Quezon province of Nueva Ecija, Republic of the Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this...