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People vs. Berdin

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. JAYSON BERDIN, CASTRO CALEJANAN and LUCIANO SALUYO alias ISOT, appellants.

G.R. No. 137598 | 2003-11-28

D E C I S I O N

SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.:

For automatic review is the Decision[1] dated January 15, 1999 of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 17, Kidapawan City, in Criminal Case No. 67-97 declaring Jayson Berdin, Castro Calejanan and Luciano Saluyo guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder and sentencing them to suffer the supreme penalty of death. They were also adjudged to pay the heirs of the victim P50,000.00 as civil indemnity.

The Information[2] dated June 11, 1997 filed against Jayson Berdin, Castro Calejanan and Luciano Saluyo, appellants, reads:

"That in the evening of June 10, 1997 at Sitio Puas Inda, Barangay Amas,...