G.R. No. 123155 - PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, VS. CARLITO MUMAR @ LITOY, JOSUE BAYRON @ BOBONG, AND DAGSON BAGAYAN @ TANGKAD, ACCUSED-.D E C I S I O N - Supreme Court E-Library

Ruling

WHEREFORE, in Criminal Case No. 8032, the Court finds the accused Carlito Mumar @ Litoy, Josue Bayron @ Bobong, and Dagson Bagayaw @ Tangkad, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Murder, defined and penalized under Article 248 of the Revised Penal Code, as embraced in the aforequoted Information. There being no mitigating nor aggravating circumstances adduced and proven during the trial, and applying the doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of People vs. Muñoz, 170 SCRA 107, the Court hereby sentences each of the accused to suffer the penalty of RECLUSION PERPETUA, with the accessory penalties of the law, to pay the heirs of Arsenio Villaver funeral expenses in the sum of P10,000; attorney's fees in the amount of P5,000, death indemnity in the sum of P50,000, without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, and to pay the costs. "SO ORDERED.