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PEOPLE vs. Bienvenido Baydo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. BIENVENIDO BAYDO y ARCAMO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 113799 | 1997-06-17

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J:

Well-entrenched is the doctrine that alibi cannot prevail over positive, clear and unbiased testimony identifying the accused and narrating his participation in the crime. Well-settled also is the rule that moral damages - whether in civil or criminal cases - cannot be awarded in the absence of proof of physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation and similar injury. 1

In an Information 2 dated August 18, 1992, Assistant Prosecutor Napoleon V. Dilag charged Appellant Bienvenido Baydo y Arcamo with the crime of murder...