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PEOPLE vs. Rolando Lanseta

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROLANDO LANSETA alias ROLANDO JAVIER y PRIMERA, alias ROLANDO C. BUNAGUA, alias LANDO JAVIER, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-30413 | 1980-01-22

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

Automatic review of the Decision dated January 25, 1969 of the Manila Circuit Criminal Court in CCC-VI-81, which imposed the death penalty on herein appellant, Rolando Javier y Primera, for the crime of Robbery with Homicide, with the attendant aggravating circumstance of treachery, disregard of respect due to the deceased on account of his rank, and cruelty, offset only by the mitigating circumstance of voluntary surrender. The other accused, Romulo Malundas y Olbindo, Jose Pilapil and Eulogio Lanseta, who were all charged as accessories after the fact, were acquitted. 1

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