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2002-04-02 |
YNARES-SANTIAGO, J. |
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| We also find that treachery qualified the killing to murder. There is treachery when the offender commits any of the crimes against the person, employing means, methods or forms in the execution thereof which tend directly and specially to insure its execution, without risk to himself arising from the defense which the offended party might make.[15] In this case, the deceased were killed inside the pickup truck. The signal to shoot was treacherously and surreptitiously pre-arranged between Dumalahay and Allan Halasan. The gunshot was so sudden that it deprived the deceased of any opportunity to put up a defense. The fact that they were seated at the backseat of the moving truck ruled out any possibility of escape. | |||||