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PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. Bacong

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REGINO BACONG, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-36161 | 1973-12-19

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:
This Tribunal once again, and instances have not been too rare of late, is confronted with the necessity of setting aside a plea of guilty improvidently made in a capital offense indictment resulting in the death sentence being imposed. It is reassuring that here, as in several other cases of recent years, the Solicitor General did join forces with the defense counsel in properly characterizing the actuation of the lower court as lacking fidelity to the controlling legal standard and thus lending vitality to the constitutional rights of an accused. Two of our most recent decisions cited by the Solicitor...