The Supreme Court of the Philippines upheld the conviction of Geraldo Santillan y Villanueva and Eugene Borromeo y Natividad for the murder of Ernesto Garcia y Mariang. According to the information, on March 28, 2004 in Caloocan City, Geraldo and four other individuals conspired and aided each other in attacking and stabbing Garcia with a bladed weapon, inflicting serious injuries that caused his instantaneous death. Both the Regional Trial Court and Court of Appeals had affirmed their conviction.
The Supreme Court of the Philippines upheld the conviction of Geraldo Santillan y Villanueva and Eugene Borromeo y Natividad for the murder of Ernesto Garcia y Mariang. According to the information, on March 28, 2004 in Caloocan City, Geraldo and four other individuals conspired and aided each other in attacking and stabbing Garcia with a bladed weapon, inflicting serious injuries that caused his instantaneous death. Both the Regional Trial Court and Court of Appeals had affirmed their conviction.
The Supreme Court of the Philippines upheld the conviction of Geraldo Santillan y Villanueva and Eugene Borromeo y Natividad for the murder of Ernesto Garcia y Mariang. According to the information, on March 28, 2004 in Caloocan City, Geraldo and four other individuals conspired and aided each other in attacking and stabbing Garcia with a bladed weapon, inflicting serious injuries that caused his instantaneous death. Both the Regional Trial Court and Court of Appeals had affirmed their conviction.
The Supreme Court of the Philippines upheld the conviction of Geraldo Santillan y Villanueva and Eugene Borromeo y Natividad for the murder of Ernesto Garcia y Mariang. According to the information, on March 28, 2004 in Caloocan City, Geraldo and four other individuals conspired and aided each other in attacking and stabbing Garcia with a bladed weapon, inflicting serious injuries that caused his instantaneous death. Both the Regional Trial Court and Court of Appeals had affirmed their conviction.
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R. No.
227878, August 09, 2017
PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GERALDO SANTILLAN Y
VILLANUEVA AND EUGENE BORROMEO Y NATIVIDAD, Accused-Appellants.
DECISION
This is an appeal from the May 8, 2015 Decision1 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA- G.R. CR-H.C. No. 05026, which affirmed the April 6, 2011 Decision2 of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 128, Caloocan City (RTC) in Criminal Case No. C-70393, finding accused- appellants Geraldo Santillan y Villanueva (Geraldo) and Eugene Borromeo (Eugene) guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder.
The Antecedents
In an Information, dated March 30, 2004, Geraldo and four (4) John Does were charged with the crime of murder. The Information reads:
That on or about the 28th day of March 2004 in Caloocan City, Metro-Manila and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, conspiring together and mutually aiding with one another, without any justifiable cause, with deliberate intent to kill, treachery, evident premeditation and abuse of superior strength, did then and there willfully, unlawfully and feloniously attack and stab with a bladed weapon one ERNESTO GARCIA Y MARIANG, hitting the latter on the different parts of the body, thereby inflicting upon him serious physical injuries, which caused his instantaneous death.
