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PEOPLE vs. Borbano

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. VICTORINO BORBANO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-37 | 1946-05-25

D E C I S I O N

DE JOYA, J:

Defendant and appellant Victorino Borbano was accused of homicide in an information filed in the Court of First Instance of Samar, charging that on March 8, 1945, in the municipality of Calbayog, Province of Samar, said accused willfully, unlawfully and feloniously, without just motive and with the express purpose to kill one Leoncio Castillano, assaulted, attacked and stabbed the latter with a knife, inflicting upon him a wound on the left chest which caused his death.

After the trial of the case, the defendant was found guilty of the crime charged and, on July 20,1945, was sentenced to an indeterminate...