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MELECIA PA?A and EMMANUEL TIGUMAN vs JUDGE FLORIPINAS C. BUYSER, Presiding Judge, Branch 30, RTC, Surigao del Norte and Surigao City, PEOPLE and the HEIRS OF JOSE JUANITE, SR. and JOSE JUANITE, JR.

MELECIA PA?A and EMMANUEL TIGUMAN, petitioners, vs. JUDGE FLORIPINAS C. BUYSER, Presiding Judge, Branch 30, RTC, Surigao del Norte and Surigao City, THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES and the HEIRS OF JOSE JUANITE, SR. and JOSE JUANITE, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 130144 | 2001-05-24

D E C I S I O N

BUENA, J.:

For a simple land dispute, father and son were sprayed with bullets right in their own house by some goons for hire. The culprits were Jose Bilboro Pomoy, Jr., alias "Robert Bayan," accused-appellants Emmanuel Tiguman, a.k.a. "Manny," and Melecia Paña, alias "Meling," and a certain John Doe. Pomoy pleaded guilty to a lesser offense of homicide. Appellants Tiguman and Paña, who were convicted of murder and sentenced to death by the trial court, filed with this Court a petition for certiorari under Rule 65, docketed as G.R. No. 130144, imputing grave abuse of discretion to the lower court in...