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    Larry Laurente and Crispulo were accused of robbing and killing Herminiano G. Artana along a street in Pasig City, Metro Manila. During the crime, the victim was strangled with a leather belt and hit with a blunt object, which caused his death. An investigation found Laurente's ID and the leather belt at the crime scene. A witness also saw Laurente leaving the scene in a taxi with two other men. The trial court found Laurente guilty of highway robbery with homicide under Presidential Decree No. 532. However, the Supreme Court ruled that this was not a case of highway robbery, but rather simple robbery under the Revised Penal Code. It modified the ruling to

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    Larry Laurente and Crispulo were accused of robbing and killing Herminiano G. Artana along a street in Pasig City, Metro Manila. During the crime, the victim was strangled with a leather belt and hit with a blunt object, which caused his death. An investigation found Laurente's ID and the leather belt at the crime scene. A witness also saw Laurente leaving the scene in a taxi with two other men. The trial court found Laurente guilty of highway robbery with homicide under Presidential Decree No. 532. However, the Supreme Court ruled that this was not a case of highway robbery, but rather simple robbery under the Revised Penal Code. It modified the ruling to

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    Larry Laurente and Crispulo were accused of robbing and killing Herminiano G. Artana along a street in Pasig City, Metro Manila. During the crime, the victim was strangled with a leather belt and hit with a blunt object, which caused his death. An investigation found Laurente's ID and the leather belt at the crime scene. A witness also saw Laurente leaving the scene in a taxi with two other men. The trial court found Laurente guilty of highway robbery with homicide under Presidential Decree No. 532. However, the Supreme Court ruled that this was not a case of highway robbery, but rather simple robbery under the Revised Penal Code. It modified the ruling to

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    People v.

    Laurente et al
    G.R. No. 116734 March 29, 1996

    Laurente and Crispulo helped, conspired willfully, unlawfully rob Herminiano G. Artana
    of his earnings along F. Concepcion St. Brgy. San Joaquin, Pasig, Metro Manila. The victim was
    strangled with a leather belt and hit him with a blunt instrument causing him to sustain physical
    injuries which caused directly caused his death.

    A conducted crime scene search found a brown wallet containing an SSS (Social Security
    System) ID of Larry Laurente and a leather belt used for strangling.

    Myra Guinto testified that she saw people scrambling inside a yellow taxicab at stop position,
    then three men left the taxicab and identified that Laurente was one of them.

    The trial court promulgated the challenged decision which it was found that Laurente is guilty
    beyond reasonable doubt of highway robbery with homicide punishable by death unter President
    Decree No. 532 entitled Anti-Piracy and Anti-Highway Robbery Law of 1974.

    Issue:
    Whether Laurente is guilty beyond reasonable doubt of P.D.No. 532 or the Anti-Piracy and
    Anti-Highway Roberry Law of 1974?

    Ruling:

    No. The case at bar is not a crime of highway robbery with homicide under Pres. Decree 532
    but a crime of robbery under the Article 249 provisions of the Revised Penal Code.

    SC remained that the coincidental fact that the robbery in the present case was
    committed inside a car which, in the natural course of things, was casually operating on
    a highway, is not within the situationby Section 2(e) of the decree in its definition of
    terms. Besides, that particular provision precisely define[s] "highway
    robbery/brigandage" and, as we have amply demonstrated, the single act of robbery
    conceived and committed by appellants in this case does not constitute highway
    robbery or brigandage.

    WHEREFORE, the challenged decision of Branch 156 of the Regional Trial Court
    of Pasig in Criminal Case No. 104785 is hereby modified as to the nature of the
    offense committed. As modified, accused-appellant LARRY LAURENTE Y
    BEJASA is found guilty beyond reasonable doubt, as co-principal by direct
    participation, of the crime of Homicide, defined and penalized under Article 249
    of the Revised Penal Code, and applying the Indeterminate Sentence Law, said
    accused-appellant LARRY LAURENTE Y BEJASA is hereby sentenced to suffer
    an indeterminate penalty ranging from Ten (10) years of prision mayor medium,
    as minimum, to Seventeen (17) years and Four (4) months of reclusion
    temporal medium, as

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