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PEOPLE vs. Labinia, Abundio

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ABUNDIO LABINIA and MICHAEL ANDAYA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-38140 | 1982-07-20

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

Automatic review of the Decision of the Circuit Criminal Court of Pasig, Rizal, in CCC-VII-1014-Rizal, for Murder, convicting the accused, Abundio Labinia and Michael Andaya, of the crime charged, and sentencing them to death. The third accused, Jimmy Heights, was allowed by the Court, with the conformity of the Fiscal to withdraw his plea of Not Guilty and plead Guilty to the lesser offense of Homicide, before the commencement of the trial of the case, and was sentenced accordingly.

All three accused are inmates of the New Bilibid Prisons at Muntinlupa, Rizal, serving their respective sentences,...