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PEOPLE. Vs. Ricardo C. Elesterio

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RICARDO ELESTERIO y CARPENTERS, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-63971 | 1989-05-09

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

At two o'clock in the morning of 8 June 1981, a police car sighted a group of three men and one woman on the sidewalk of Libertad street in Pasay City and stopped to investigate. Patrolmen Joseph Nepomuceno and Ernesto Maneja alighted. While they were frisking two of the men, the third male made a run for it but was caught after a brief pursuit. A search of his person yielded a .32 caliber revolver and two rounds of live ammunition. The holster he had dropped while attempting to escape was also recovered. Ricardo Elesterio ---- for that was his name admitted that he had no permit or authority to carry the...