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People vs. Mariano Esteban y Molina

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIANO ESTEBAN Y MOLINA and LUIS CAMAYA Y ROCHA, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-27046-47 | 1981-03-30

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J.:

This is a review of the decision of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, Pasay City Branch VII, dated October 11, 1966, convicting Mariano Esteban and Luis Camaya of murder, sentencing them to death and ordering them to pay solidarily to the heirs of Maria Pascua an indemnity of six thousand pesos (Criminal Case No. 6058-P).

In the same decision, Esteban and Camaya were convicted of frustrated murder with respect to the assault upon Antonio Maravilla. They were each sentenced to a straight penalty of seventeen years and four months of reclusion temporal. No indemnity was imposed (Criminal Case No. 6059-P).

In 1963,...