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PEOPLE vs. Constancio L. Cauyan

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CONSTANCIO L. CAUYAN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-33697 | 1984-04-02

D E C I S I O N


RELOVA, J.:

Constancio L. Cauyan was convicted by the then Court of First Instance of Quezon of the crime of murder in Criminal Case No. 14735 and of frustrated murder in Criminal Case No. 14737. In the murder case, said accused was sentenced "to suffer twenty (20) years of reclusion temporal, with the accessory penalties provided by law; to indemnify the heirs of the deceased Claudia Amat in the sum of P6,000.00 with subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency; and to pay the costs." In the frustrated murder case, he was sentenced "to suffer an indeterminate penalty of from two (2) years and four (4) months of prision...