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PEOPLE vs. Enecito Villason

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ENECITO VILLASON, MAXIMO VILLASON, ANTONIO CASER, and SATURNINO CERUELA, accused, ANTONIO CASER and SATURNINO CERUELA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-38208 | 1982-07-30

D E C I S I O N


RELOVA, J.:

About 2:00 in the afternoon of January 10, 1973, brothers Mariano, Benito and Fermin, all surnamed Tello, and Ernesto Pagaran were on their way home after they had collected from Barangay Captain Basilio Barcus of Barangay Capalayan, Surigao City, the payment of the fish which they had caught on the night of January 9, 1973.

They were walking along the bank of Capalayan river when Antonio Caser, Saturnino Ceruela, Enecito Villason and Maximo Villason who were on the other side of the bank shouted at the Tello brothers and challenged them to a bolo fight. Pagaran answered that they are not there to fight and...