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PEOPLE vs Pablo Macapas, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PABLO MACAPAS, TRANQUILINO O. CALO, JR. and BELARMINO ALLOCOD, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 94210 | 1996-04-26

VITUG, J.:

Right after giving his testimony as the complainant-victim in a frustrated murder case, 1 Mariano Corvera, Sr., a former mayor of Nasipit in Agusan del Norte, was gunned down in cold blood by Pablo Macapas, the accused, inside the courtroom of the Regional Trial Court, Branch II, in Butuan City, then being presided over Judge Rosario F. Dabalos

In due time 2 a new charge for murder was filed against Macapas, along with his counsel, then Mayor Tranquilino O. Calo, Jr., and the latter's driver, Belarmino Allocod, in an information (docketed Criminal Case No. 3464) that read:

That on or about morning of March 10, 1988 at Capitol...