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PEOPLE vs. Edwin Nardo, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. EDWIN NARDO and WILLY YLARDE, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 100197 | 1997-04-04

D E C I S I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:

In pleading for acquittal, appellants attack the sufficiency of the evidence of the prosecution and the credibility of its witnesses, and offer the defense of alibi and denial. The Court rejects these contentions and applies the familiar rule according great respect to findings of fact by the trial court. However, it finds the accused guilty of four separate crimes of murder and two attempted murders, instead of the complex crime of murder with double frustrated murder.

Accused-appellant Edwin Nardo and Willy Ylarde appeal theirconviction 1 by the Regional Trial Court of Tayug, Pangasinan, Branch 51, 2...