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People vs. Pascual, et al

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. HERMINIGILDO PASCUAL alias Gildo, CEFERINO PASCUAL alias Efren, and LEONARDO CABIGTING alias Adong, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-29893 | 1978-02-23

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

Herminigildo Pascual, Ceferino Pascual and Leonardo Cabigting appealed from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija, Guimba Branch, convicting each of them of three murders, imposing on each of them three sentences of reclusion perpetua, and ordering them to pay solidarily an indemnity of six thousand pesos (P6,000) to each set of heirs of the three victims, Pilar Sebastian-de la Cruz, Cesario de la Cruz and Priscilla de la Cruz (Criminal Case No. 258-G). The judgment of conviction was based on the following evidence of the prosecution:

Shortly before midnight in the evening of March 9,...