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PEOPLE vs. Enriquito Tapitan, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ENRIQUITO TAPITAN, ET AL., defendants, ENRIQUITO TAPITAN and ELENO TAPITAN, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-21492 | 1969-04-25

D E C I S I O N 


FERNANDO, J.: 

To the deeply-rooted instinct for a piece of land one can tell one's own, so felicitously referred to by Ardrey as "the territorial, imperative," 1 even if one's right is not crystal clear, being subject to an adverse claim, a conflict having developed, could be traced the killing that gave rise to the conviction for murder, now before us on appeal. On the morning of April 9, 1958 in Goliptoc, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur, the deceased, Maximo Candia, met his death from gunshot wounds, one of them fatal, inflicted by the accused, now appellants, Eleno Tapitan and Enriquito Tapitan, father and son,...