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    1) The issue was whether Nacional and his co-accused were guilty of conspiracy in the shooting deaths of Quirino and Joel Lagason. 2) The court found them guilty, as a conspiracy was established at a meeting where the accused agreed to target and kill the victims. 3) After the meeting, all the accused were seen walking together towards the victims' house, where they proceeded to shoot and kill them, demonstrating a unity of purpose and plan.

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    1) The issue was whether Nacional and his co-accused were guilty of conspiracy in the shooting deaths of Quirino and Joel Lagason. 2) The court found them guilty, as a conspiracy was established at a meeting where the accused agreed to target and kill the victims. 3) After the meeting, all the accused were seen walking together towards the victims' house, where they proceeded to shoot and kill them, demonstrating a unity of purpose and plan.

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    People v. Nacional

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    1) The issue was whether Nacional and his co-accused were guilty of conspiracy in the shooting deaths of Quirino and Joel Lagason. 2) The court found them guilty, as a conspiracy was established at a meeting where the accused agreed to target and kill the victims. 3) After the meeting, all the accused were seen walking together towards the victims' house, where they proceeded to shoot and kill them, demonstrating a unity of purpose and plan.

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    PEOPLE v NACIONAL ISSUE:

    G.R. Nos. 111294-95; September 7, 1995


    Whether or not Nacional and his co- accused
    Puno, J. were guilty of conspiracy?

    HELD:
    TOPIC: ARTICLE 8. Conspiracy and Proposal to
    Commit Felony. — Conspiracy and proposal to Yes, they are guilty of conspiracy.
    commit felony are punishable only in the cases in
    which the law specially provides a penalty Yes. The conspiracy in the instant case was
    therefor. established at the meeting of February 25, 1985
    at 4:00 p.m. apparently, nobody disagreed with
    A conspiracy exists when two or more persons the plan to shoot the victims because
    come to an agreement concerning the immediately after the meeting, all the accused
    commission of a felony and decide to commit it. were seen walking as a group towards Barangay
    Salvacion. When they saw their intended victims,
    There is proposal when the person who has
    they shot them and fled towards the RCPI
    decided to commit a felony proposes its
    execution to some other person or persons. building. Even those left at the waiting shed
    likewise fled towards the same direction. Clearly,
    FACTS: the shooting of the Lagasons was characterized
    by a unity of purpose, intention and design.
    On February 21, 1985 at Brgy. Salvacion,
    Municipality of Daraga, Province of Albay. Walter While, it hardly matters that accused-appellant
    National alias "Ka Dennis," and four others with was not actually present at the specific place of
    intent to kill, conspiring, confederating and the shooting. However, he was at the waiting
    helping one another, with evident planning and shed but this was for the purpose of providing
    taking advantage of superior strength, did then
    security to those who carried out the shooting.
    and there willfully, unlawfully and intently shoot
    with a firearm Quirino Lagason and Joel The waiting shed was located along the way to
    Lagason, inflicting upon them the injuries the Lagasons' house, strategically at the
    resulting to their death. entrance to and exit from it.

    The accused, Walter Nacional and five others A conspiracy, once established, makes each of
    were said to be civilian members of the barangay the conspirators liable for the acts of the others.
    organization of the Communist Party of the All conspirators are liable as co-principals
    Philippines (CPP) –NPA at Daraga, Albay. regardless of the extent of their participation
    because in contemplation of law, the act of one is
    A few days before the crime was committed, their
    the act of all.
    organization held a conference and identified the
    victims, Quirino and Joel Lagason, as the military \WHEREOF, the decision appealed from is
    informants. They believed that both, Quirino and
    hereby AFFIRMED insofar as the criminal
    Joel, posed as a threat to the organization’s
    operations within the vicinity and targeted their liability of accused-appellant Javier Mirabete
    liquidation. is concerned, and insofar as the civil liability
    of all the accused in Criminal Cases Nos.
    Nobody disagreed and immediately after the said 4854-4855. The prosecution has clearly and
    conference; all accused immediately carried out convincingly
    the plan. Walter Nacional and the other accused
    claimed not guilty with a defense that their established the existence of a conspiracy in
    presence in the vicinity of the crime was merely the planning and execution of the crimes.
    incidental. They merely showed directions, and Conspiracy arises at the very instant the
    offered water, while the accused appellant
    plotters agree, expressly or impliedly to
    testified that he was watching a volleyball game
    near the scene of the crime when the shooting commit the felony and forthwith to actually
    happened. pursue it.

    The judgment convicting the five accused is


    based on the evidence presented by the
    prosecution. It is derived mainly from the
    testimonies of two eyewitnesses — Bienvenida
    Lagason, Quirino's widow and Joel's mother, and
    Crisanto Miranda, a neighbor of the Lagasons —
    and accused Walter Nacional.

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