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PEOPLE vs Dela Cruz, Salboro, Gener, and San Pedro

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. JOSE DELA CRUZ y DACILLO, JAMES SALBORO y JOROLAN, EDWIN "BUTCH" GENER y CATEAN and ARNEL SAN PEDRO y TACOME, appellant.

G.R. No. 148730 | 2003-06-26

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

This is an automatic review of the Decision of the court a quo convicting accused-appellants JOSE DELA CRUZ y DACILLO, JAMES SALBORO y JOROLAN, EDWIN "BUTCH" GENER y CATEAN and ARNEL SAN PEDRO y TACOME of robbery with homicide and imposing upon them the supreme penalty of death.[1]

On 13 July 1999, at around 1:15 in the morning, a passenger bus of the Chinese-Filipino Friendship Transport, Inc. (CFFTI), with Plate No. PXS 898, driven by Terry Edma with Antonio Dormitorio as conductor was on its way to its garage in Fairview, Quezon City. For both Edma and Dormitorio it was another grueling day as they had...