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PEOPLE Vs. Roman Meneses

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROMAN MENESES Y MARIN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 111742 | 1998-03-26

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J:

Eyewitness identification is vital evidence and, in most cases, decisive of the success or failure of the prosecution. 1 Subject of the Court's scrutiny in the instant criminal case is the credibility of a child's alleged eyewitness account on which the appellant's conviction by the trial court was solely anchored.

At around three o'clock in the early morning of December 15, 1991, thirty-three year old Cesar Victoria was stabbed to death while sleeping by his seven-year old son Christopher in a rented makeshift room in Tondo, Manila.

Appellant Roman Meneses was charged with the murder of Cesar Victoria, in...