Case Digest (G.R. No. 188603)
Facts:
PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, VS. RAMIL RARUGAL ALIAS AMAY BISAYA, ACCUSED-APPELLANT. On December 8, 1998 an information for murder was filed alleging that on or about October 19, 1998 in Quezon City the accused stabbed one Arnel M. Florendo with a long double-bladed weapon while the victim was cycling along Sampaguita Street, Barangay Capari, Novaliches, thereby inflicting mortal wounds. The incident was witnessed by Roberto Sit-Jar who later positively identified the accused in court. Florendo reached home bleeding and, according to his brother Renato, told relatives that Ramil Rarugal had stabbed him; Florendo was brought first to Tordesillas Hospital and then to Quezon City General Hospital, where he died on October 26, 1998. The medico-legal report disclosed a three-centimeter sutured stab wound on the left chest entering the thoracic cavity and severing the lower lobe of the left lung, with left hemothorax of 500 cc, and listed the cause of death as stab w...Case Digest (G.R. No. 188603)
Facts:
The People of the Philippines filed an information on December 8, 1998 charging Ramil Rarugal alias Amay Bisaya with murder for the stabbing of Arnel M. Florendo on October 19, 1998; Florendo died on October 26, 1998. Witness Roberto Sit‑Jar identified appellant as the assailant; appellant was arrested in August 2001, pleaded not guilty, and raised denial and alibi that he was in Pangasinan.The Regional Trial Court convicted appellant of murder on May 29, 2006 and sentenced him to reclusion perpetua; the Court of Appeals affirmed with modification on June 30, 2008, and this appeal followed to the Supreme Court.
Issues:
- Was appellant proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt of murder?
- Was the qualifying circumstance of treachery established?
- Are the awards of actual, civil, moral and exemplary damages proper in amount?
Ruling:
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Doctrine:
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