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People vs. Tan y Verzo

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. HERSON TAN y VERZO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 117321 | 1998-02-11

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

May the confession of an accused, given before a police investigator upon invitation and without the benefit of counsel, be admissible in evidence against him?

Accused-appellant Herson Tan, along with Lito Amido, were charged with the crime of highway robbery with murder before the Regional Trial Court, Branch 62, of Gumaca, Quezon Province, under an information 1 dated February 8, 1989, which reads as follows:

"That on or about the 5th day of December 1988, along the Maharlika Highway at Barangay Tinandog, Municipality of Atimonan, Province of Quezon, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable...