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PEOPLE vs Jonathan Besonia

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. JONATHAN BESONIA, appellant.

G.R. Nos. 151284-85 | 2004-02-05

D E C I S I O N

DAVIDE, JR., C.J.:

From just a three-page, double-spaced decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Iloilo City, Branch 23, emanates the fiat sentencing appellant Jonathan Besonia to two counts of the most severe penalty of death for having committed two counts of murder. The decision leaves much to be desired. More than half of it was devoted to the narration about Besonia's plea of guilty and the consequent searching inquiry conducted by the trial court. After that narration is a statement that he was not authorized to carry the fatal weapon recovered from him, which is immediately followed by the dispositive portion,...