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2006-06-27 |
GARCIA, J. |
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| For more than half a century now, the Court had repeatedly ruled that "evidence to be believed must not only proceed from the mouth of a credible witness, but it must be credible in itself such as the common experience and observation of mankind can approve as probable under the circumstances."[16] There can never be a better gauge by which a witness' testimony may be evaluated and analyzed than the ordinary common human experience. This becomes even more important in this case when, as found by no less than the CA, the judge who rendered the decision of conviction was not the same judge who heard the case on trial, thus not having been afforded the opportunity to personally observe the demeanors of the witnesses. | |||||