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People of the Philippines Vs. Jojo Musa y Santos, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus JOJO MUSA y SANTOS, ROBERT CARI?O y FERRERAS, AUGUST DAYRIT y HERNANDEZ, CESAR DOMONDON, JR. y SACRIZ, and MICHAEL GARCIA y DELA CRUZ, Accused-Appeellants.

G.R. No. 170472 | 2009-07-03

D E C I S I O N


BRION, J.:

We review in this appeal the decision[1] of the Court of Appeals (CA) dated October 11, 2005 in CA-G.R. CR-HC No. 00735, which affirmed with modification the decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 272, Marikina City, convicting Jojo Musa (Jojo), Robert Cariño (Robert), August Dayrit (August), Cesar Domondon, Jr. (Cesar), and Michael Garcia (Michael) - collectively referred to as the appellants - of robbery with homicide and imposing on them the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

ANTECEDENT FACTS

The prosecution charged the appellants and Roberto Barredo (Barredo) before the RTC with the...