5. In Criminal Case No. 91-94196, to suffer an indeterminate penalty of
one (1) year, eight (8) months and twenty-one (21) days of prision
correccional as minimum to five (5) years, five (5) months and eleven (11)
days of prision correccional as maximum;
6. In Criminal Case No. 91-94197, to suffer an indeterminate penalty of
one (1) year, eight (8) months and twenty-one (21) days of prision
correccional as minimum to five (5) years, five (5) months and eleven (11)
days of prision correccional as maximum;
7. In Criminal Case No. 91-94198, to suffer the penalty of life
imprisonment and to pay a fine of P100,000.00.
Further, the accused shall indemnify the private complainants, Napoleon
Ramos, Cristina Nava, Margarita Nadal, Purita Conseja and Leo delos
Santos, the sum of P30,000.00 each and complainant Merlita Bombarda
the amount of P20,000.00 with interest thereon at the legal rate from the
date of institution of these cases, i.e., April 29, 1991, until fully paid.
Costs against the accused in all the above-captioned cases.
SO ORDERED.
The above conviction stemmed from seven informations. The information in Criminal
Case No. 91-94192 reads:
That on or about and during the period comprised between January 12,
1991 and February 17, 1991, both dates inclusive, prior or subsequent
thereto in the City of Manila, Philippines, the said accused conspiring and
confederating with three others whose true names, identities and present
whereabouts are still unknown, helping one another, did then and there
willfully, unlawfully and feloniously defraud NAPOLEON RAMOS y
ESPEJO in the following manner, to wit: the said accused, by means of
false manifestations and fraudulent representation which they made to
said NAPOLEON E. RAMOS to the effect that they had the power and
capacity to recruit and employ him as Factory Worker in Hongkong and
could facilitate the processing of the pertinent papers if given the
necessary amount to meet the requirements thereof, and by means of
other similar deceits, induced and succeeded in inducing said
NAPOLEON E. RAMOS to give and deliver, as in fact (he) gave and
delivered to said accused the amount of P30,000.00 on the strength of
said manifestations and representations, said accused well knowing that
the same were false and fraudulent and were made solely to obtain, as in
fact did obtain the amount of P30,000.00 which amount once in
possession, with intent to defraud he (sic) willfully, unlawfully and
feloniously misappropriated, misapplied and converted to their own