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PEOPLE vs. Cristuto Ursal

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CRISTUTO URSAL alias TOTONG URSAL, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-33768 | 1983-04-20

D E C I S I O N


RELOVA, J.:

Automatic appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Cebu finding accused Cristuto Ursal, alias Totong Ursal, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder, sentencing him to death and ordering him to pay the heirs of Aquilina Lepon the sum of P12,000.00, without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency and to pay the costs.

Prosecution evidence, as synthesized in the People's Brief, are as follows:

"At around 4 o'clock in the afternoon of October 26, 1970, in Bo. Curva, Libertad, Bogo, Cebu, Aquilina Lepon, a middle age woman of 53 years (tsn, April 13, 1971, p. 32), while she...