G.R. No. 125319 - PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, VS. HUGA TANILON Y CARINAL, ACCUSED-. D E C I S I O N - Supreme Court E-Library

Ruling

WHEREFORE, premises considered, the Court finds Huga Tanilon y Carinal and Simeon Yap y Montecino guilty beyond reasonable doubt as principal and accomplice, respectively, of Murder penalized under Art. 248 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended by R.A. 7659. Accordingly, accused Huga Tanilon y Carinal is hereby sentenced to the (sic) penalty of reclusion perpetua, together with all the accessory penalties provided by law. Accused Simeon Yap y Montecino is hereby sentenced, after applying the indeterminate sentence law, to suffer an indeterminate prison term ranging from 8 years and 1 day of prision mayor as minimum to 14 years, 8 months and 1 day of reclusion temporal as maximum, together with all the accessory penalties provided for by law. Both defendants are jointly and severally ordered to pay to the lawful heirs of the deceased victim Andrew Caldera the following: (a) P 1,440,000.00 representing loss of income; (b) P 50,000.00 as death indemnity; and (c) P 30,000.00 for moral damages. "The jailer is hereby ordered to make the proper reduction of the period during which the said two defendants were under preventive custody by reason of this case in accordance with law. "SO ORDERED.