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PEOPLE vs. Gonzales, Et. Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MELECIO GONZALES ET AL., defendants. MELECIO GONZALES, appellant.

G.R. No. L-119 | 1946-04-10

D E C I S I O N

DE JOYA, J:

The defendant and appellant Melecio Gonzales, with five others, was accused in the Court of First Instance of Batangas, of the crime of murder, with the qualifying circumstance of evident premeditation and the aggravating circumstances of treachery and that the offense was committed in the house of the victim, Esteban Briones, in the barrio of Pinagkawitan, municipality of Lipa, Batangas, in the morning of April 28, 1945.

Before the trial was commenced in the court below. the case was dismissed with reference to the other five accused, on motion of the prosecution, on the ground of insufficiency of the...