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PEOPLE vs Isidro G. Perez, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff, vs. ISIDORO PEREZ y GAYETA alias "OROY", FELICISIMO PEREZ y PEREZ alias "SIMO", CLARITO PEREZ y PEREZ, JUANITO PEREZ y GAYETA alias "JUAN", ROLANDO PEREZ Y PEREZ alias "LANDO", defendants.

G.R. Nos. 110100-02 | 1996-12-11

TORRES, JR., J.:


Internecine (internecinus) is not an idle word. "Internecine strife" conveys a fight among the same kin or group. Thus, the historian Tacitus observed that "the bitterest hatreds are those of next of kin," acerrima proximorum odia. This is the case before us, a brother with bolo hacking to death a sister allegedly caused by land boundary dispute.

Accused-appellants Isidoro Perez, Felicisimo Perez, Juanito Perez, Rolando Perez, and Pablo de Guzman, were charged with the crime of murder in three separate informations all dated January 11, 1991 and filed with Branch 7, Regional Trial Court, Batangas City. The accusatory...