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PEOPLE vs Vicente Menil, Jr

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. VICENTE MENIL, JR., accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 115054-66 | 2000-09-12

D E C I S I O N
GONZAGA-REYES, J.:
On appeal is the joint decision[1] dated 16 August 1993, of the Regional Trial Court of Surigao City, Branch 30, in Criminal Case Nos. 2948, 2956, 3000, 3001, 3013, 3020, 3021, 3022, 3026, 3028, 3052, 3053, 3054, and 3058, convicting accused-appellant Vicente "Boy" Menil, Jr. of one (1) count of large scale swindling and thirteen (13) counts of estafa.
The facts of the case are as follows:
Vicente Menil, Jr. and his wife, Adrian B. Menil, were the proprietors of a business operating under the name ABM Appliance and Upholstery with offices at the Denso Building, Capitol Road, Surigao City. On July 15,...