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PEOPLE Vs. Mariano Timple, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIANO TIMPLE, BERNARDO GUDOY y SUMALBAG, ALFREDO UBIANO y PAYON, RUDY MAIQUEZ y MANGLANLAN, RANDO EDUARDO SAGUN y GRANDE, ROGELIO AGUYAOY, CIPRIANO PADUA alias "Edwin," DANILO LAPITAN, and RODOLFO PADUA ---- all accused as Principal by direct participation; and MIN. EDGARDO S. ALCANTARA, former resident Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo Church in Baloc, Sto. Domingo, N. Ecija, accused herein as accessory, accused. MARIANO TIMPLE appellant.

G.R. Nos. 100391-92 | 1994-09-26

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

Mariano Timple appeals from the decision of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 32 of Guimba, Nueva Ecija which found him and Bernardo Gudoy, Randy Eduardo Sagun and Rudy Maiquez guilty beyond reasonable doubt of two (2) crimes of robbery with multiple homicide.

In Criminal Case No. 505-G, accused Mariano Timple, Bernardo S. Gudoy, Alfredo P. Ubiano, Rudy M. Maiquez, Randy Eduardo G. Sagun, Rogelio Aguyaoy, Cipriano Padua, Danilo Lapitan, and Rodolfo Padua were charged with robbery with multiple homicide in an information which read as follows:

"That on the night of February 8, 1989, in Culong, Municipality...