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PEOPLE. Vs. Rolly Anquillano

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROLLY ANQUILLANO alias DAGOL, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 72318 | 1987-04-30

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The accused-appellant is before Us to challenge his conviction of the complex crime of murder with serious physical injuries, for which he has been sentenced to death and to pay civil indemnity in the amount of P30,000.00. 1 His claim is that he was not there when the victims were shot and so could not have committed the offense.

His conviction was based mainly on the testimony of Miguel Burton, who was himself wounded when he and Manuel Sequerra were ambushed on a lonely stretch of road in sitio So-ot in the town of La Paz in Abra, at about 12:30 in the afternoon of November 10, 1983. 2

According to Burton,...