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PEOPLE. Vs. Tito Datahan, etal.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. TITO DATAHAN, LEONCIO DATAHAN, CENEN COSCOS, NARCISO LUSICA and RUFO LUSICA, accused-appellants.

G.R. Nos. L-77107-08 | 1988-01-21

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The last supper Vedasto Piscos had with his wife Librada ---- although neither of them realized it then ---- was on July 15, 1984, in barangay Bayong, Guindulman, Bohol. After the repast, as he recalls, Librada went to the kitchen on the first floor to wash the dishes while he relaxed in a hammock upstairs, savoring the quiet. The couple lived alone. Hearing his dog barking, Vedasto went down to see why and was accosted by two men, one of whom suddenly hit him in the body and head, causing him to run away some twenty meters before he fell unconscious. When he regained consciousness later at the Bohol Provincial...