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    G.R. No. 213792 June 22, 2015 GUILLERMO WACOY y BITOL, Petitioner, People of The Philippines, Respondent

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    This document is a court decision from the Supreme Court of the Philippines regarding the conviction of Guillermo Wacoy y Bitol and James Quibac Rafael for the crime of homicide. The court affirms the decision of the Court of Appeals, finding the petitioners guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of killing Elner Aro y Laruan in April 2004 by attacking, assaulting, mauling and kicking him in the stomach, which caused his death. The court sentences the petitioners to 6 years and 1 day to 12 years and 1 day in prison and orders them to pay damages to the victim's heirs.

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    This document is a court decision from the Supreme Court of the Philippines regarding the conviction of Guillermo Wacoy y Bitol and James Quibac Rafael for the crime of homicide. The court affirms the decision of the Court of Appeals, finding the petitioners guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of killing Elner Aro y Laruan in April 2004 by attacking, assaulting, mauling and kicking him in the stomach, which caused his death. The court sentences the petitioners to 6 years and 1 day to 12 years and 1 day in prison and orders them to pay damages to the victim's heirs.

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    This document is a court decision from the Supreme Court of the Philippines regarding the conviction of Guillermo Wacoy y Bitol and James Quibac Rafael for the crime of homicide. The court affirms the decision of the Court of Appeals, finding the petitioners guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of killing Elner Aro y Laruan in April 2004 by attacking, assaulting, mauling and kicking him in the stomach, which caused his death. The court sentences the petitioners to 6 years and 1 day to 12 years and 1 day in prison and orders them to pay damages to the victim's heirs.

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    G.R. No. 213792 June 22, 2015 GUILLERMO WACOY y BITOL, Petitioner, People of The Philippines, Respondent

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    This document is a court decision from the Supreme Court of the Philippines regarding the conviction of Guillermo Wacoy y Bitol and James Quibac Rafael for the crime of homicide. The court affirms the decision of the Court of Appeals, finding the petitioners guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of killing Elner Aro y Laruan in April 2004 by attacking, assaulting, mauling and kicking him in the stomach, which caused his death. The court sentences the petitioners to 6 years and 1 day to 12 years and 1 day in prison and orders them to pay damages to the victim's heirs.

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    G.R. No.

    213792               June 22, 2015

    GUILLERMO WACOY y BITOL, Petitioner, 


    vs.
    PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Respondent,

    DECISION

    PERLAS-BERNABE, J.:

    Assailed in these consolidated petitions for review on certiorari  are the Decision  dated December 6, 2013 and the
    1 2

    Resolution  dated July 21, 2014 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR No. 34078, which, inter alia, found
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    petitioners Guillermo Wacoy y Bitol (Wacoy) and James Quibac Rafael (Quibac) guilty beyond reasonable doubt
    of the crime of Homicide.

    The Facts

    That on or about the 11th day of April 2004, at Ambongdolan, Municipality of Tublay, Province of Benguet,
    Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, conspiring,
    confederating and mutually aiding each other, with intent to kill, did then and there willfully, unlawfully and
    feloniously attack, assault, maul and kick the stomach of one ELNER ARO y LARUAN, thereby inflicting upon him
    blunt traumatic injuries which directly caused his death thereafter.

    That the offense committed was attended by the aggravating circumstance of superior strength.

    The Issue

    Whether or not the CA correctly found Wacoy and Quibac guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of
    Homicide.

    The Ruling

    WHEREFORE, the petition is DENIED. The Decision dated December 6, 2013 and the Resolution dated July 21,
    2014 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CR No. 34078 are hereby AFFIRMED with MODIFICATION. Accordingly,
    petitioners Guillermo Wacoy y Bitol and James Quibac y Rafael are found GUILTY beyond reasonable doubt of
    the crime of Homicide defined and penalized under Article 249 of the Revised Penal Code with the mitigating
    circumstance of lack of intent to commit so grave a wrong under Article 13 (3) of the same Code. They are
    sentenced to suffer the penalty of imprisonment for an indeterminate period of six ( 6) years and one (1) day of
    prision mayor, as minimum, to twelve (12) years and one (1) day of reclusion temporal, as maximum, and ordered
    to pay the heirs of Elner Aro the amounts of P25,000.00 as temperate damages, P75,000.00 as civil indemnity ex
    delicto, and P75,000.00 as moral damages, all with interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the
    finality of this Decision until fully paid.

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