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People vs. Alonzo, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ANTONIO ALONZO, RENATO HERNANDO, ROLANDO GA?O and JUAN VILLOSILLO alias "Ilocano", defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-32163. G.R. No. L-32163 | 1976-10-19

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

The difficulty confronting the four appellants, who were accused, tried and thereafter convicted of the crime of murder for having stabbed and killed a certain Wilfredo Flores, in securing a reversal of such decision is not lessened by their counsel limiting himself to filing a brief of six-pages. What is worse, his statement of the facts on which certainly he would predicate an acquittal is curt, to the point of non-existence. It reads in full: "In the evening of April 29, 1966, one Wilfredo Flores alias 'Willie Flores' was stabbed twice by person or persons unknown in front of the Orchid Refreshment and the...