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PEOPLE vs Cielito Buluran and Leonardo Valenzuela

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CIELITO BULURAN y RAMIREZ and LEONARDO VALENZUELA y CASTILLO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 113940 | 2000-02-15

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision dated February 4, 1994, of the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 95, convicting accused-appellants of the crime of murder and sentencing them to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua, to pay solidarily the heirs of the deceased the amount of P50,000.00 as indemnity, and P8,000.00 as actual damages, and also to pay proportionately the costs.

Of the four suspected perpetrators of the crime, only two were arrested and tried, namely Cielito Buluran and Leonardo Valenzuela, now the appellants. The other two, Reynaldo Danao and Jaime Danao, remain at-large.

The facts, as...