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People. Vs Estebia

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REMEGIO ESTEBIA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-26868 | 1971-07-29

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

What is before this Court is the automatic review of a lower court decision convicting the accused and sentencing him to death. Its correctness is to be tested in the light of the principal contention that the plea of guilty of the accused under the circumstances disclosed did not suffice for the lower court's judgment of conviction. There is, as will hereinafter be made evident, justification for such a stand as a reading of the transcript would indicate that there were positive and categorical statements denying culpability by the accused in the course of answering questions asked by the lower court.
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