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PEOPLE vs. Bonifacio Yagong

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BONIFACIO YAGONG, defendant-appellant. Felicidad A. Sia counsel de oficio for defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 77088 | 1990-01-29

D E C I S I O N

GANCAYCO, J:

In an information that was filed by the Assistant Provincial Fiscal of Misamis Oriental in the Regional Trial Court of the same province, Bonifacio Yagong was charged with the crime of multiple parricide for having killed his wife and two minor children on June 21, 1983 with the aggravating circumstance of deliberately augmenting the wrong done not necessary to its commission by slashing the abdomen of his wife, Delia Yagong, cutting a two-inch portion of her liver and eating the same.

With the assistance of a counsel de oficio the accused entered a plea of not guilty after which the trial on the merits...