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PEOPLE Vs. Romulo Carullo, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROMULO CARULLO y BONGAO, JOSE TAULE y OMADTO, and VIRGILIO DE LOS REYES y ABIGANIA, accused, ROMULO CARULLO y BONGAO and JOSE TAULE y OMADTO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 82351 | 1998-04-24

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J:

This is an appeal from a decision of Branch 172 of the Regional Trial Court of Valenzuela, Metro Manila, in Criminal Case No. 5980-V-83, finding accused-appellants Romulo Carullo y Bongao and Jose Taule y Omadto guilty of robbery with homicide and sentencing each of them to suffer three penalties of reclusion perpetua and ordering them to indemnify the heirs of the victim in the amount of P30,000.00.

The third accused, Virgilio de los Reyes, escaped from confinement before the termination of the trial of the case and has remained at large.

The prosecution's evidence shows that in the early morning of...