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2007-03-07 |
GARCIA, J. |
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| On the other hand, the present case does not confront us with a situation where it can be said that the informant's testimony is indispensable such that a conviction would be baseless without it. Here, it was SPO4 Jamisolamin, whose testimony was duly adduced, that acted as poseur-buyer. He testified as to his own personal knowledge of the sale that had taken place. The informant's testimony, then, would have been merely corroborative and cumulative because the fact of sale of the prohibited drug was already established by the direct testimony of SPO4 Jamisolamin who actively took part in the transaction. If the prosecution has several eyewitnesses, as in the instant case, it need not present all of them but only as many as may be needed to meet the quantum of proof necessary to establish the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt. The testimonies of the other witnesses may, therefore, be dispensed with for being merely corroborative in nature.[12] | |||||
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2002-07-18 |
QUISUMBING, J. |
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| and unreliable, but also because it can be fabricated easily.[39] Their bare-faced denial cannot prevail over their positive identification as the malefactors by eyewitnesses who had no motive to falsely testify against them.[40] The presence of conspiracy between appellants has also been proved amply. It is easily deducible from Devera's act of poking an ice pick at the driver while Viñalon was divesting the passengers of their valuables. Their acts, collectively and individually executed, | |||||