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PEOPLE vs. Rodolfo Quibate

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RODOLFO QUIBATE, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-54881 | 1984-07-31

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

Accused Rodolfo Quibate appeals the decision of the Court of First Instance of Capiz finding him guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of parricide and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the heirs of Prima Baltar-Quibate.

Around 4:00 in the early morning of July 22, 1978, the accused-appellant stabbed his wife Prima Baltar to death in a fit of jealousy. The couple's ten-year old daughter, Imelda Quibate, testified that her father stabbed her mother to death with a knife while the two were quarreling in the balcony of their house at Aranguel, President...