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PEOPLE Vs. Rey Solis

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REY SOLIS, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 124127 | 1998-06-29

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J:

In a decision, promulgated on 21 December 1995, the Regional Trial Court of Dagupan City, Branch 43, presided over by Judge Silverio Q. Castillo, found accused Rey Solis guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder. Since the sentence pronounced on him was the capital penalty of death, the case was elevated to this Court for automatic review.

The accused was earlier charged by the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor with murder in an information that read:

"That on or about October 12, 1994 at public Market, at Poblacion, municipality of Mangaldan, province of Pangasinan, Philippines and within the...