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PEOPLE Vs. Benedicto Campa, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BENEDICTO CAMPA, MATEO CAMPA, PROCESO CAMPA, JIMMY CAMPA, and DALMACIO CAMPA, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 105391 | 1994-02-28

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

It would appear that in some men the veneer of civilization is so thin and fragile the slightest offense will blow it away to expose the savage underneath. Any affront, imagined or otherwise, transforms them into "brutish beasts," seemingly in an instant; they become so suddenly filled with ungovernable rage that they turn on their fellow man and put him to death, pitilessly and cruelly.

One such transformation apparently took place at a dance party in the home of Benedicto Campa, Sr. in Hda. Galispin, Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City, in the evening of January 24, 1984. The party was in celebration of...