Title
People vs. Cortez
Case
G.R. No. L-13968
Decision Date
Oct 31, 1962
A 1955 wedding dance in Isabela turned violent when a brawl escalated into a fatal stabbing. Librado Pascual died from a chest wound; his ante mortem statement implicated attackers. The Supreme Court ruled it homicide, not murder, due to lack of treachery, and rejected a dubious confession.
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