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PEOPLE vs. EDWIN MORIAL, LEONARDO MORIAL alias “CARDING” and NONELITO ABI?ON* alias “NOLY,” defendants-appellants.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EDWIN MORIAL, LEONARDO MORIAL alias “CARDING” and NONELITO ABI?ON* alias “NOLY,” defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 129295 | 2001-08-15

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

Two of the three appellants herein were sentenced to death by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Southern Leyte for Robbery with Homicide. The other was sentenced to suffer only the penalty of reclusion perpetua on account of minority. The judgment of conviction is now before this Court on automatic review.

The information charging appellants reads as follows:

That on the 6th day of January 1996, at about 6:30 o'clock [sic] in the evening more or less, in [B]arangay Cagnituan, [M]unicipality of Maasin, [P]rovince of Southern Leyte, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the...