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People vs Arnel Bernal

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARNEL BERNAL, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 132791 & 140465-66 | 2002-09-02

EN BANC
D E C I S I O N

CORONA, J.:

Accused-appellant Arnel B. Bernal seeks reversal of the judgment of conviction promulgated by Branch 2 of the Regional Trial Court of the First Judicial Region stationed in Bangued, Abra, on November 4, 1997, sentencing him to death for the crime of Murder with the aggravating circumstances of evident premeditation and habitual drunkenness, and likewise separately sentencing him to suffer the prison terms of 10 years and 1 day of prision mayor as minimum to 17 years of reclusion temporal as maximum for the crime of Illegal Possession of Firearms and Ammunition (Presidential Decree No. 1866), and 2 years and...