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PEOPLE vs. Raymundo Araja, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RAYMUNDO ARAJA and RODING ARAJA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-24780 | 1981-06-29

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

This is an appeal from the Decision of the Court of First Instance of Batangas, Eighth Judicial District, in Criminal Case No. 1904, convicting the brothers, RAYMUNDO Araja and RODING Araja, of Murder, qualified by treachery, and sentencing each one to suffer reclusion perpetua, to indemnify the heirs of the deceased Apolonio Aquino, jointly and severally, in the sum of P6,000.00, each to pay one-half of the costs, and to suffer all the accessories of the law.

The Information, dated December 17, 1962, charged the two above accused as follows:

"That on or about the 29th day of November, 1962 in the...