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PEOPLE Vs. Rene Nuestro, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RENE NUESTRO y JAGONASE, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 111288 | 1995-01-18

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

A vagary of fate, often beyond the ken and comprehension of man, is why the divine gift of life can so easily be lost for the most trivial or mortal reasons. Consider a prosecution for unlawful killing, where each side offers what it professes was the cause and the court chooses the more plausible version in light of the evidence. Yet at the end of the trial and its day, the unease in the judicial mind gropes through the gloaming of wonder, as it would in the dusk of twilight, to fathom why that tragedy ever came to pass. This is a case in point.

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