THIRD DIVISION
[G.R. No. 220750. August 2, 2017.]
PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee,vs. WENDUN CHEN AKA EPSON SY TAN @ NILSON TAN AND LIANFU CHEN @ "JIMMY TAN", accused-appellants.
NOTICE
Sirs/Mesdames :
Please take notice that the Court, Third Division, issued a Resolution dated August 2, 2017, which reads as follows:
"G.R. No. 220750 (People of the Philippines v. Wendun Chen aka Epson Sy Tan @ Nilson Tan and Lianfu Chen @ "Jimmy Tan"). — The records of this case were elevated to this Court pursuant to the Resolution 1 dated August 14, 2015 of the Court of Appeals (CA) which gave due course to the accused-appellants Wendun Chen aka Ebson Sy Tan (Tan) and Lianfu Chen's (Chen) Notice of Appeal.
On January 13, 2016, this Court issued a Resolution 2 wherein it notified both parties to file their respective supplemental briefs. In lieu, however, thereof, the Office of the Solicitor General filed its Manifestation 3 wherein it submitted that it is no longer necessary to file any supplemental brief.
In a Supplemental Brief dated April 8, 2016, accused-appellants merely restated and adopted the arguments they propounded in their Appellant's Brief submitted before the CA.
After a perusal of the records of the case, this Court resolves to DISMISS the appeal for failure of accused-appellants Tan and Chen to sufficiently show any reversible error in the assailed Decision dated January 29, 2015 of the CA which would warrant the exercise of this Court's appellate jurisdiction.
In view of current jurisprudence, however, this Court imposes on all the monetary awards for damages, interest at the legal rate of 6% per annum from the date of finality of this Decision until fully paid. 4
WHEREFORE, the appeal is DISMISSED. The Court of Appeals Decision dated January 29, 2015 in CA-G.R. CR HC No. 05821 is AFFIRMED with MODIFICATION that accused-appellants Wendun Chen aka Ebson Sy Tan @ Nilson Tan and Lianfu Chen @ "Jimmy Tan" are likewise ordered to pay, in addition to all monetary awards for damages, an interest at the legal rate of 6% per annum from date of finality of this Decision until fully paid.
(Jardeleza, J., no part, due to his prior action as Solicitor General; Caguioa, J., designated additional Member per Raffle dated March 15, 2017.)
SO ORDERED."
Very truly yours,
(SGD.) WILFREDO V. LAPITANDivision Clerk of Court
Footnotes
1. CA Rollo, p. 207.
2.Rollo, pp. 26-27.
3.Id. at 32-33.
4.People v. Veloso, G.R. No. 188849, February 13, 2013.