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PEOPLE vs Samuel Yu Valdez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SAMUEL YU VALDEZ alias Bebot, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 127801 | 1999-03-03

D E C I S I O N 

QUISUMBING, J.: 

This is an appeal from the decision1 Penned by Judge Anastacio D. Anghad.] rendered on November 4, 1996, by the Regional Trial Court of Lagawe, Ifugao, Branch 14, in Criminal Case No. 930, which found Samuel Valdez guilty of the crime of illegal transport of marijuana buds/leaves and sentencing him to reclusion perpetua and to pay a fine of P500,000.00. 

In an information dated December 28, 1994, Provincial Prosecutor Jose Godofredo Naui charged herein accused-appellant with violation of Section 4 of Republic Act No. 6425, as amended, otherwise known as Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972, allegedly...