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PEOPLE vs Orlando Guerrero, Sr & Jr

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ORLANDO M. GUERRERO, SR., and ORLANDO A. GUERRERO, JR., accused, / ORLANDO A. GUERRERO, JR., accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 134759 | 2002-09-19

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of San Fernando, La Union, Branch 27, in Criminal Case No. 4402, finding appellant Orlando A. Guerrero, Jr., guilty of murder and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua, and to pay the amount of P62,000 as actual damages and P50,000 as moral damages. Co-accused Orlando M. Guerrero, Sr., was acquitted.

On April 4, 1997, Orlando Guerrero, Jr., also known as "Pablo," together with his father Orlando Guerrero, Sr., nicknamed "Dino," was accused of murder committed as follows:

That on or about the 7th day of January 1997, in the...