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    (1) Five men were accused of killing two brothers, Cesario and Rogelio Ilac, after encountering them near a river late at night. (2) The court found the confessions of the five accused men to be more credible than the testimony of the sole eyewitness, the brother of the victims. (3) The Supreme Court ruled that two of the accused, Charles and Juan, were guilty of homicide aggravated by abuse of superiority and cruelty for the killing of Rogelio Ilac. Weighting down and tying the victims' bodies before disposing of them in the river constituted an outrage to the corpses under the law.

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    (1) Five men were accused of killing two brothers, Cesario and Rogelio Ilac, after encountering them near a river late at night. (2) The court found the confessions of the five accused men to be more credible than the testimony of the sole eyewitness, the brother of the victims. (3) The Supreme Court ruled that two of the accused, Charles and Juan, were guilty of homicide aggravated by abuse of superiority and cruelty for the killing of Rogelio Ilac. Weighting down and tying the victims' bodies before disposing of them in the river constituted an outrage to the corpses under the law.

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    (1) Five men were accused of killing two brothers, Cesario and Rogelio Ilac, after encountering them near a river late at night. (2) The court found the confessions of the five accused men to be more credible than the testimony of the sole eyewitness, the brother of the victims. (3) The Supreme Court ruled that two of the accused, Charles and Juan, were guilty of homicide aggravated by abuse of superiority and cruelty for the killing of Rogelio Ilac. Weighting down and tying the victims' bodies before disposing of them in the river constituted an outrage to the corpses under the law.

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    G.R. No.

    L-36446 September 9, 1983


    THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JUAN C. MAGUDDATU,
    EDIPOLO L. MAGUDDATU, CHARLES A. MAGUDDATU, PEDRO MAGUDDATU and
    ANTONIO CABAYU, Accused whose death sentences are under review.
    (p. 502, Reyes)
    FACTS
    The Court held that the confessions of the five accused were more valid, than the single
    uncorroborated testimony of Reynaldo Ilac, 20, the brother of the victims, who was the
    only alleged eyewitness of the killing. According to this version, on the night in question,
    while they were returning from Barrio Sirit, Abulug, where they attended a dance, and
    when the motorized banca wherein they were riding was at Sitio Cabaritan, Barrio
    Dana-ili, they saw on the bank three persons leading a carabao. Suspecting them to be
    cattle rustlers, they stopped the banca and landed on the bank. Edipolo, armed with a
    bolo (duckial), pursued one of the three men whom he killed because he resisted. He
    did not know the mans name (he was Cesario Ilac). Charles, armed with a carbine, and
    Juan, armed with a bolo (immuko), killed their quarry whose name they also did not
    know (he was Regelio Ilac). Pedro and Antonio chased the third man who was able to
    escape. Then, Charles, Juan and Edipolo tied the two dead bodies with wire and nylon
    rope, weighted them with a piece of cement and scrap iron, placed the cadavers in the
    boat and submerged the same in the river near Sitio Gandia. The five accused are
    related to each other and to Mayor Inocencio Maguddatu of Abulug.
    ISSUE
    W/N the act of defendants constitute an outrage to the corpses as contemplated in
    article 248(6) of the Revised Penal Code as distinguished from article 14(21) which
    speaks merely of deliberately augmenting the wrong not necessary to its commission
    RULING CFI Cagayan
    CFI found Pedro, Juan, Edipolo and Charles, all surnamed Maguddatu, and Antonio
    Cabayu guilty of double murder, imposing on each of them two death penalties and
    requiring them to pay solidarily the heirs of the victims, the brothers Rogelio Ilac and
    Cesario Ilac, an indemnity of P50,000 (Criminal Case No. 183-S). Edipolo and Pedro
    died in prison on September 29, 1976 and June 17, 1983, respectively.
    RULING SC
    For the killing of Rogelio Ilac, Charles and Juan are guilty of homicide aggravated by
    abuse of superiority, use of the motorized banca (in disposing of the corpse) and cruelty.
    Weighting the victims bodies with a cement boulder and hub cap and tying their wrist
    and ankles with nylon cord and wire constitute an outrage their corpses as
    contemplated in article 248(6) of the Revised Penal Code as distinguished from article
    14(21) which speaks merely of deliberately augmenting the wrong not necessary to its
    commission. They are entitled to the mitigating circumstances of voluntary surrender to
    the authorities.

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