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PEOPLE vs Juan Taclan y Paronga, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JUAN TACLAN y PARONGA, DANILO TACLAN y LALUZ, NEMESIO ALCANTARA y GIRIGANDA and PERFECTO GASTA y QUEVIDO, accused. JUAN TACLAN y PARONGA, DANILO TACLAN y LALUZ and NEMESIO ALCANTARA y GIRIGANDA, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 123109 | 1999-06-17

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

JUAN TACLAN Y PARONGA, DANILO TACLAN Y LALUZ, NEMESIO ALCANTARA Y GIRIGANDA and PERFECTO GASTA Y QUEVIDO were charged with murder before the Regional Trial Court of Santa Cruz, Laguna, for killing, in conspiracy with one another, Carlos Taclan y Paronga, with treachery, abuse of superior strength and evident premeditation.1 [Information dated 7 April 1994; Records, pp. 2-3.]

On 17 July 1995 the trial court convicted Juan Taclan, Danilo Taclan and Nemesio Alcantara as principals in the crime charged, qualified by treachery, for which they were sentenced to reclusion perpetua. Perfecto Gasta was found...