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People of the Phil vs. Laurenzo (Lorenzo) Alquizar

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LAURENZO (LORENZO) ALQUIZAR, defendant.

G.R. No. L-35369 | 1979-08-21

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This is a review en consulta of the decision of the Circuit Criminal Court at Pasig, Rizal, convicting Laurenzo (Lorenzo) Alquizar of murder, sentencing him to death and ordering him to pay the heirs of Fernando Rivas an indemnity of P22,000 (Criminal Case No. 988). He did not appeal from that decision.

It is not disputed that in the afternoon of April 10, 1971, Alquizar, 31 or 32, a native of Cebu City and a prisoner in the national penitentiary at Muntinlupa, Rizal since 1963, inflicted two stab wounds on Rivas, another prisoner, while the two, together with more than eighty prisoners, were being brought...