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PEOPLE vs Gadin Jr.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ORLITO GADIN, JR. alias "Ay-Ay", accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 130658 | 2000-05-04

D E C I S I O N


PARDO, J.:

The case is before the Court on automatic review of the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Catbalogan, Samar, Branch 28 convicting Orlito Gadin, Jr. alias "Ay-Ay" of murder and sentencing him to death, to indemnify the heirs of the victim Elito Pajanustan in the amount of Thirty Two Thousand Four Hundred Pesos (P32,400.00) as actual damages and Two Hundred Thousand Pesos (P200,000.00) as exemplary and moral damages, and to pay the costs.1 [Decision denoted as "Sentence", Criminal Case No. 4053, Original Record, pp. 78-84. Judge Sibanah E. Usman, presiding.]

On June 6, 1995, Samar Provincial Prosecutor Juan C....