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PEOPLE vs. Luisito Arias, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LUISITO ARIAS, EDILBERTO UGAY, ARTEMIO BOLIGAO, and ALEXANDER MELICOR, Accused, LUISITO ARIAS, EDILBERTO UGAY, and ARTEMIO BOLIGAO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-40531 | 1981-01-27

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

MANDATORY REVIEW of the death sentence imposed upon the accused Luisito Arias, Edilberto Ugay, and Artemio Boligao by the Court of First Instance of Davao.

The record shows that at about 7:00 o'clock in the evening of April 5, 1972, while Filemon Cordova, a septuagenarian, was preparing to go to sleep at his copra dryer, about 40 meters from his house which he had leased to Ricardo Timbol and his family, in Sitio Libertad, Barrio Canocotan, Tagum, Davao, a man, armed with a gun, whom he identified as the accused Edilberto Ugay, barged in and demanded money. When Filemon replied that he had none, he was...