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PEOPLE vs. Tipay, Et. Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RICARDO TIPAY ET AL., defendants. RICARDO TIPAY, appellant.

G.R. No. 49014 | 1944-03-31

D E C I S I O N

OZAETA, J:

At or shortly before noon on August 25, 1942, in the cockpit of Gerona, Tarlac, and in the presence of a large crowd of cockpit habitues, the ex-mayor of that town, Nicolas Garcia, was treacherously daggered to death. The assassin escaped unscathed and unidentified.

More than six months later, to wit, on March 6, 1943, an inspector of the Bureau of Constabulary named Pablo Fernandez filed a complaint in the justice of the peace court of Gerona against Ricardo Tipay, Hipolito Ablan, and Joaquin Tipay for the murder above mentioned, based upon three self-incriminating supposed affidavits written in English and...