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PEOPLE vs Gario Alba Alias "Mario Alba"

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GARIO ALBA alias “MARIO ALBA”, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 130523 | 2002-01-29

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

Before us is an appeal from a decision[1] dated March 24, 1997, of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 33, in Dumaguete City, in Criminal Case No. 10632, convicting appellant Gario Alba alias "Mario Alba" of the crime of murder under Article 248 of the Revised Penal Code, before its amendment by Republic Act No. 7659.

On February 9, 1993, an Information was filed against Alba, charging him with murder allegedly committed as follows:

That at about 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon of January 31, 1993, at sitio Pananlaya-an, barangay Datagon, municipality of Pamplona, province of Negros Oriental, Philippines and...