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PEOPLE vs Willerie Avenda?o

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. WILLERIE AVENDA?O, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 137407 | 2003-01-28

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On automatic review is the decision[1] dated January 29, 1999 of the Regional Trial Court of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, Branch 46, in Criminal Case No. R-4227. Appellant Willerie Avendaño was found guilty of murder and accordingly sentenced to suffer the penalty of death.

The facts of this case, culled from the records, are as follows:

In an information dated August 18, 1997, Willerie Avendaño was charged with two counts of murder allegedly committed as follows:

That on or about the 29th day of July, 1997 at night time (sic) in Purok Bagong Silang, Barangay Aguas, Municipality of Rizal, Province of Occidental...