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PEOPLE Vs. Rolando Vivas

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROLANDO VIVAS @ LANDO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 100914 | 1994-05-06

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The appellant was one of three men accused of robbery with homicide in the Regional Trial Court of Occidental Mindoro. The other two are still at large. Only he was arrested and subsequently tried and convicted. 1 He now asks for reversal of the judgment on the ground that he was not at all involved in the offense imputed to him.

The trial court found that Rolando Vivas, together with Bobot Manongdo and Jeffrey Picar, attacked the barangay outpost at Bagong Sikat, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, in the early morning of September 23, 1986, killing three patrolmen and taking from them two rifles and one revolver....