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PEOPLE vs. Carlito Sadiwa, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CARLITO SADIWA, ROMEO PAYLAGO and BENJAMIN ALAB, defendants, CARLITO SADIWA, appellant.

G.R. No. L-37203 | 1982-10-23

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J.:

Automatic review of a decision of the Court of First Instance of Oriental Mindoro in Criminal Case No. DJC-138, imposing the death penalty on CARLITO SADIWA for the crime of murder.

Carlito Sadiwa and other persons were accused of murder in an information which reads as follows:

"That on or about the 7th day of September 1970 at Sitio Pansulan, Barrio Inclanay, Municipality of Pinamalayan, Province of Oriental Mindoro and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused CARLITO SADIWA and BENJAMIN ALAB, conspiring, confederating and mutually helping one another, with evident...