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PEOPLE vs Erlindo Bensig

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ERLINDO BENSIG, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 138989 | 2002-09-17

D E C I S I O N

CORONA, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Ormoc City, Branch 35, in Criminal Case No. 4837-0, finding the appellant Erlindo Bensig guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of "forty (40) years reclusion perpetua" and to pay the aggrieved party the sum of fifty thousand pesos (P50,000) as civil indemnity, twenty thousand pesos (P20,000) as actual damages and fifty thousand pesos (P50,000) as moral damages.

The information, dated July 25, 1996, charged the appellant, Erlindo Bensig, of the crime of murder as follows:

"That on or...