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PEOPLE Vs. Mario Rivera

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIO RIVERA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 101798 | 1993-05-10

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

An evening intended to be a relaxing night out between two friends, herein accused-appellant Mario Rivera and his erstwhile co-accused Venancio Mercado, Jr., provided a tragic tableau for the senseless killing of an unwitting victim and the conviction of appellant for murder. The case did not even have the saving grace of the inscrutability of fate; it was but another mundane episode involving the admixture of bravado and alcohol.

Appellant Mario Rivera and Venancio Mercado, Jr. were charged before the Regional Trial Court, Branch VIII at Aparri, Cagayan, with the crime of murder in an information alleging...