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PEOPLE. Vs. Gregorio A. Aranja, etal

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GREGORIO ARANJA y ARA?A and MAGDALENA ARANJA y RAMIREZ, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 56268 | 1989-10-13

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The spouses Gregorio and Magdalena Aranja were both convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. 1 They questioned the judgment before this Court, but Magdalena later withdrew her appeal and the case was considered "closed and terminated" as to her. 2 This decision deals only with Gregorio, who continues to protest his innocence and insists he had nothing to do with the killing of Joseph Tan.

The Aranjas and the Tans were neighbors, but they apparently did not believe in the Biblical injunction to love one another. In fact, there was bad blood between the two families. Earlier, Joseph Tan's wife,...