SECOND DIVISION
[G.R. No. 248500. December 11, 2019.]
TIRSO DIONCO y RAFER AND EFREN DIONCO y RAFER, petitioners,vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent.
NOTICE
Sirs/Mesdames :
Please take notice that the Court, Special Second Division, issued a Resolution dated11 December 2019which reads as follows:
"G.R. No. 248500 (Tirso Dionco y Rafer and Efren Dionco y Rafer vs. People of the Philippines). — This is a Petition for Review on Certiorari under Rule 45 of the Revised Rules of Court seeking to annul and set aside the Decision 1 dated July 23, 2019 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR No. 41372.
After a careful review of the records of the case, the Court resolves to DISMISS the petition for failure to sufficiently show any reversible error in the herein assailed Decision to warrant the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction.
However, guided by the Court's ruling in People v. Jugueta, 2 the Court modifies the amount of damages imposed therein. HTcADC
WHEREFORE, the Court ADOPTS and AFFIRMS the factual findings and conclusions of law in the Decision dated July 23, 2019 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CR No. 41372 insofar as it found petitioners Tirso Dionco y Rafer and Efren Dionco y Rafer guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Homicide as defined and penalized under Article 249 of the Revised Penal Code; SUBJECT TO THE MODIFICATION in that herein petitioners shall suffer the penalty of eight (8) years and one (1) day of prision mayor, as minimum, to fourteen (14) years and eight (8) months of reclusion temporal, as maximum, and pay the heirs of the victim, Eduardo Bolocon, the following amounts of damages: (a) P50,000.00 as civil indemnity; (b) P50,000.00 as moral damages; and (c) P50,000.00 as temperate damages. The total amount due shall earn interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the date of finality of this Resolution until the full satisfaction thereof.
SO ORDERED."
Very truly yours,
(SGD.) TERESITA AQUINO TUAZONDeputy Division Clerk of Court
Footnotes
1. Penned by Associate Justice Stephen C. Cruz, with Associate Justices Ma. Luisa Quijano Padilla and Perpetua T. Atal-Paño, concurring; rollo, pp. 31-44.
2. 783 Phil. 806 (2016).