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PEOPLE vs Wilfredo Panabang

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. WILFREDO PANABANG Y BUSNAG, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 137514-15 | 2002-01-16

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

It could have indeed been a merry evening for three men unwinding from the rigors of a working day had not for a single bullet that claimed the life of one of them.

On the night of 04 September 1997, Police Chief Inspector Romeo Castro Astrero of Sison, Pangasinan, was shot to death. Wilfredo B. Panabang was charged with murder, coupled with illegal possession of firearm, before the Regional Trial Court, Branch 46, of Urdaneta City. Two separate accusatory Informations, docketed Criminal Case No. U-9528 and Criminal Case No. U-9529, respectively, were filed.

"Criminal Case No. U-9528

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