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PEOPLE vs. Teddy Quinao, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. TEDDY QUINAO, ROLANDO SIDRO and BALTAZAR ORTIZ, respondent-appellants.

G.R. No. 108454 | 1997-03-13

D E C I S I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:


In resolving this appeal, this Court once more stresses these general rules: alibi and denial are weak defenses which cannot prevail over the prosecution witnesses' unhesitating, positive and firm identification of the accused as the persons responsible for the crime; and conspiracy, like any other element of the offense, must be proved as clearly and as convincingly as the crime itself.

Accused-appellants Teddy Quinao, Rolando Sidro and Baltazar Ortiz, together with a certain Romy Pontica who has remained at large since the commission of the offense, were charged with murder by State Prosecutor Bernard...