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PEOPLE vs. Modesto Boston, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MODESTO BOSTON and JOVENCIO BOSTON, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-41302 | 1982-03-15

D E C I S I O N


CONCEPCION, JR., J.:

APPEAL of the accused Modesto Boston and Jovencio Boston from the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Davao finding them guilty of the crime of Murder and sentencing each of them to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua, with the accessory penalties prescribed by law, and ordering them to indemnify the heirs of the late Eduardo Boston Lunario in the amount of P12,000.00, and to pay the costs.

The inculpatory facts show that at about 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon of April 15, 1972, while Laureana Boston Vda. de Lunario was in Sitio Bilabid, Barrio San Jose, Samal, Davao, to buy fish for...