EN BANC
[G.R. No. 39989. January 24, 1935. ]
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ESPARE, BABANY and ASU (Moros), Defendants-Appellants.
Jose G. Generoso for Appellants.
Solicitor-General Hilado for Appellee.
SYLLABUS
1. CRIMINAL LAW; TWO HOMICIDES AND ONE MURDER. — Upon a review of the whole record the court was of the opinion that it would not be justified in rejecting the lower court’s findings of fact. The appellants are guilty, however, not of a complex crime, but of three crimes, that is: two crimes of homicide for the killing of H. H. and M. H., and the crime of murder for the killing of the child, K. H.
2. ID.; ID.; SEPARATE PENALTIES FOR EACH CRIME. — As the penalty imposed was within the discretion of the trial judge in accordance with section 106 of the Administrative Code for the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, regardless of the classification of the crime as homicide or murder and of the circumstances, the court sentenced each of the appellants to suffer separate penalties for each crime.
2. ID.; ID.; SEPARATE PENALTIES FOR EACH CRIME. — As the penalty imposed was within the discretion of the trial judge in accordance with section 106 of the Administrative Code for the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, regardless of the classification of the crime as homicide or murder and of the circumstances, the court sentenced each of the appellants to suffer separate penalties for each crime.
D E C I S I O N
VICKERS, J.:
The appellants were tried in the Court of First Instance of Davao on a plea of not guilty to an information for triple murder alleging:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
"Que en o hacia el 3 de marzo de 1933, en Sirawan, Municipio y Provincia de Davao, Islas Filipinas, y dentro de la jurisdiccion de este juzgado, los referidos acusados, aprovechando la obscuridad de la noche, conspirando juntos, obrando de comun acuerdo y con bolos que entonces consigo llevaban, agredieron a Hosei Higa, Matsuo Higa y Kentaro Higa causandoles varias heridas en sus respectivos cuerpos; y que a consecuencia de dichas heridas, los citados Hosei Higa, Matsuo Higa y Kentaro Higa murieron en el acto."cralaw virtua1aw library
The trial judge found the appellants guilty of the crime of triple homicide, and sentenced each of them to suffer fourteen years, eight months, and one day of reclusion temporal, to indemnify the heirs of the deceased in the sum of one thousand pesos, and to pay the costs.
The attorney de oficio for the appellants alleges that the lower court erred as follows:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
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"Que en o hacia el 3 de marzo de 1933, en Sirawan, Municipio y Provincia de Davao, Islas Filipinas, y dentro de la jurisdiccion de este juzgado, los referidos acusados, aprovechando la obscuridad de la noche, conspirando juntos, obrando de comun acuerdo y con bolos que entonces consigo llevaban, agredieron a Hosei Higa, Matsuo Higa y Kentaro Higa causandoles varias heridas en sus respectivos cuerpos; y que a consecuencia de dichas heridas, los citados Hosei Higa, Matsuo Higa y Kentaro Higa murieron en el acto."cralaw virtua1aw library
The trial judge found the appellants guilty of the crime of triple homicide, and sentenced each of them to suffer fourteen years, eight months, and one day of reclusion temporal, to indemnify the heirs of the deceased in the sum of one thousand pesos, and to pay the costs.
The attorney de oficio for the appellants alleges that the lower court erred as follows:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
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