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PEOPLE vs Compo @ Dodong and Gonzaga @ Longlong

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LEMUEL COMPO @ DODONG and MAURICIO GONZAGA @ LONGLONG, accused. LEMUEL COMPO @ DODONG, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 112990 | 2001-05-28

D E C I S I O N

PARDO, J.:

Accused Lemuel Compo appeals from the decision of the Regional Trial Court, Bohol, Branch 1, Tagbilaran City, finding him guilty beyond reasonable doubt of murder and sentencing him to reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the heirs of Procopio Dales in the amount of fifty thousand pesos (P50,00.00) and twenty thousand pesos (P20,000.00) as moral and exemplary damages.[1]

On March 17, 1992, Second Assistant Provincial Prosecutor of Bohol Rodolfo R. Ligason filed with the Regional Trial Court, an information charging Mauricio Gonzaga and Lemuel Compo with murder, committed as follows:

"That on or about the 1st...