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Ramon Dorado vs. Court of Appeals

RAMON DORADO, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. L-57744 | 1987-08-31

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

Petitioner is before the Court on what might well be deemed the last chapter of a veritable twenty-nine-year odyssey which bears witness to his long struggle, against great odds, to prove himself innocent of the crime of taking another man's life. Prosecuted in April 1958, 1 together with his brother Henry Dorado and Leopoldo Barrios, for the murder of Manuel Villasis, Ramon Dorado went through a trial that dragged on for fifteen years and saw a succession of three Trial Judges sit and hear the evidence, 2 his co-accused Barrios discharged to become a state witness 3 and death overtake his brother, the other...