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PEOPLE Vs. Eduardo Pulusan, Et. Al.,

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EDUARDO PULUSAN y ANICETA, ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ y MACALINO, ROLANDO TAYAG and JOHN DOE Alias Ramon/Efren, accused. EDUARDO PULUSAN y ANICETA And ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ y MACALINO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 110037 | 1998-05-21

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J:

Four men held a robbery of a passenger jeepney along the Bulacan-Pampanga highway, divesting all passengers of their valuables. Four of the jeepney's passengers were killed by the robbers and the only female passenger raped repeatedly. Three victims, however, lived to tell the story - the jeepney driver, a fifty-year old man and the ravaged girl.

The Solicitor General summarized the prosecution evidence as follows:

On January 20, 1986 at about 9:00 o'clock in the evening, Constancio Gomez was then plying his route from Balagtas, Bulacan along the MacArthur Highway going towards Malolos, Bulacan on board a...