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PEOPLE vs Marietta Patungan, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIETTA PATUNGAN y PULGA, EDGAR ACEBUCHE y CERVITO and ELMERTO PULGA y ACEBUCHE, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 138045 | 2001-03-14

D E C I S I O N

GONZAGA-REYES, J.:

At about 10:00 p.m. of May 22, 1994, Antonio Altarejos and his girlfriend Antonia Eluzon with a few other friends were having a drinking spree beside the chapel along Laura Calderon St., Purok 2, Barangay Old Balara, Quezon City. Antonio and Antonia noticed the van of their neighbor Alejandro Patungan parked in front of the chapel and saw two men seated inside, one is the accused Elmerto Pulga at the driver's seat and the other is the accused Edgar Acebuche.[1] Sometime that evening Elmerto Pulga drove the van away from the chapel and towards a vacant lot near Commonwealth Avenue to allow another car to...