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2005-04-06 |
GARCIA, J. |
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| In a judgment of acquittal in favor of two (2) accused charged of murder in People vs. Abujan,[5] the Court wrote:We are enraged by the shocking death suffered by the victim and we commiserate with her family. But with seeds of doubt planted in our minds by unexplained circumstances in this case, we are unable to accept the lower court's conclusion to convict appellants. We cannot in conscience accept the prosecution's evidence here as sufficient proof required to convict appellants of murder. Hence, here we must reckon with a dictum of the law, in dubilis reus est absolvendus. All doubts must be resolved in favor of the accused. Nowhere is this rule more compelling than in a case involving the death penalty for a truly humanitarian Court would rather set ten guilty men free than send one innocent man to the death row. Perforce, we must declare both appellants not guilty and set them free. | |||||