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PEOPLE vs Cleopas and Pirame

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. TEODORICO CLEOPAS and FLORENCIO PIRAME, accused./FLORENCIO PIRAME, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 121998 | 2000-03-09

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision dated January 5, 1995, of the Regional Trial Court of Tagbilaran City, Branch 1, in Criminal Case No. 8343 finding the accused Teodorico Cleopas and Florencio Pirame guilty of murder beyond reasonable doubt.1 [Rollo, pp. 19-25.]

The facts of the case, as found by the trial court, are as follows:

"The factual findings of the Court based on the testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution and the defense are, as follows, to wit:

a) That in the morning of March 18, 1993 near the house of Demetrio Cleopas, father of the accused Teodorico Cleopas and Epifanio Cleopas at Barangay...