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PEOPLE vs. MARIO LACUESTA, RICHARD LACUESTA (at large), ALI LAMELA (at large) and RODNEY LAMELA (at large), accused. / MARIO LACUESTA

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIO LACUESTA, RICHARD LACUESTA (at large), ALI LAMELA (at large) and RODNEY LAMELA (at large), accused. / MARIO LACUESTA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 129212 | 2001-09-14

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

TRAGEDIES, as they happen in our time and age, seem to have inanities for beginnings. As shown in this case, the dreadful death which befell the victim traces its roots to a trivial tale of a fighting cock.

Sometime in late 1994 Danilo Panes borrowed a fighting cock from accused-appellant Mario Lacuesta to be entered in a cockfight in Dueñas, Iloilo. On the day of the derby, Danilo took the cock to the poblacion and proudly showed it around. The oblivious cock somehow found its way into the hands of Elmer Piccio who upon recognizing it to be his cock that was earlier stolen, asserted his right to...