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Enrique"Totoy" Rivera y De Guzman vs PEOPLE

ENRIQUE "TOTOY" RIVERA Y DE GUZMAN Petitioner, versus PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Respondent.

G.R. No. 138553 | 2005-06-30

D E C I S I O N 


GARCIA, J.: 

Assailed and sought to be set aside in this petition for review on certiorari are the October 16, 1998 decision[1] and April 5, 1999 resolution[2] of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CR No. 17284, which respectively affirmed in toto an earlier decision of the Regional Trial Court of La Trinidad, Benguet convicting herein petitioner Enrique "Totoy" Rivera of the crime of direct assault, and denied petitioner's motion for reconsideration. 

On May 6, 1993, in the Regional Trial Court at La Trinidad, Benguet an information[3] for direct assault was filed against petitioner, allegedly committed, as...