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PEOPLE vs Tuvera

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. RODOLFO TUVERA y NERI, appellant,

G.R. No. 149811 | 2004-06-08

D E C I S I O N




CALLEJO, SR., J.:

This is an appeal from the Decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Balaoan, La Union, Branch 34, in Criminal Case No. 2440 convicting appellant Rodolfo Tuvera y Neri of murder, imposing upon him the penalty of "reclusion perpetua to death" and ordering him to indemnify the heirs of the victim Orlando Tabafunda y Orfiano in the amount of P50,000.00.

Rodolfo Tuvera was charged of murder in an Information, the accusatory portion of which reads:

That on or about the 1st day of March 1995 at about 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon in Barangay Nagsabaran Sur, Municipality of Balaoan, Province of La Union,...