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PEOPLE Vs. Edgardo D. Lim, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EDGARDO LIM Y DE GUZMAN AND RODOLFO RAMIREZ Y VALENTINO, defendants-appellants. The Solicitor General for plaintiff-appellee. Beltran, Beltran & Beltran for Edgardo Lim. Roberto E. Gomez for Rodolfo Ramirez.

G.R. No. 90021 | 1991-05-08

D E C I S I O N


GANCAYCO, J.:

This is an appeal from a decision of the Regional Trial Court, National Capital Judicial Region, at Quezon City, dated May 10, 1988 convicting the defendants Edgardo Lim and Rodolfo Ramirez of the crime of kidnapping for ransom sentencing them to suffer reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the victims Robina Gokongwei and Celina Ngochua in the amount of P50,000.00 each.

The findings of the court a quo are as follows:

At about 7:00 o'clock in the morning of August 20, 1981 Roberto Rosaldo, a driver of the Gokongwei family, was driving around Metropolitan Manila in the family Toyota Hi-Ace van bringing...