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People vs. Gervero

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, VS. ESMAEL GERVERO, FLORENCIO ARBOLONIO, DANILO CASTIGADOR, CELSO SOLOMON AND EDUARDO BAÑES ACCUSED. ESMAEL GERVERO (DECEASED), DANILO CASTIGADOR, CELSO SOLOMON AND EDUARDO BAÑES ACCUSED-APPELLANTS.

G.R. No. 206725 | 2018-07-11

MARTIRES, J.:
 
This is an appeal from the 31 March 2011 Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CR.-H.C. No. 00674 which affirmed with modification the 6 March 2006 Decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 29, Iloilo City (RTC), in Criminal Case No. 37792, finding Esmael Gervero, Florencio Arbolonio, Celso Solomon, Danilo Castigador, and Eduardo Bañes (the accused) guilty of murder.[3]
 
THE FACTS

In an Information, dated 27 March 1992, the accused were charged with multiple murder. The information reads:
 
That on or about the 25th day of November, 1991, in the Municipality of Lemery, Province of...