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Arce Ignacio Espiritu for appellant. Zaballero for appellee. Defendant Primitivo Ala is accused, together with Nicolas Mojica, of murder committed, according to the information, as follows:.

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That on or about the 24th day of March, , in the New Bilibid Prison, municipality of Muntinlupa, province of Rizal, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused conspiring and confederating together and mutually helping one another, armed with deadly weapons to wit, sharp-pointed instruments, with intent to kill with evident premeditation and treachery, did then and there, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously stab one Ruperto Artus y Garcia on the different parts of his body, thereby inflicting several stab-wounds on the body of said Ruperto Artus y Garcia which caused his death instantaneously.

That the accused are quasi-recidivist having committed the above-mentioned felony while serving sentence after having been convicted of final judgment. Upon arraignment, Ala pleaded guilty to the charge, whereas Mojica entered a plea of not guilty. Thereupon, the court of First Instance of Rizal rendered judgment sentencing Ala to the extreme penalty, to indemnify the heirs of the deceased Ruperto Artus in the sum of P6,, and to pay the costs.

Then, the court proceeded with the trial as regards Mojica. The case is now before us en consulta , insofar as Ala is concerned, owing to the nature of the penalty meted out against him. Counsel de oficio for Ala, namely, Atty. Erlinda Arce Ignacio Espiritu, has submitted a well written brief. She candidly states therein that, owing to the absence of evidence in the records of this case, due to Ala's plea of guilty and to the fact that the records of the proceedings in the lower court had not been transcribed prior to the filing of said brief, apart from the circumstances that the case against Mojica was still pending determination in said court, she exerted efforts to ascertain Ala's participation in the commission of the crime charged, and that, on the basis of the information thus furnished her, by Ala and Mojica, which admittedly is hearsay evidence, the veracity of which she cannot assure, she doubts whether Ala had sufficient knowledge of the meaning and consequences of his plea of guilty, when he entered the same, and whether he perpetrated said crime.

The brief filed on behalf of the prosecution, by the Office of the Solicitor General, has, likewise, a similar conclusion and recommendation, predicted upon analogous considerations. Fortunately, however, the transcript of the proceedings when Ala entered his plea of guilty and was sentenced by the lower court is now attached to the record. Moreover, after due trial, Ala's co-defendant Nicolas Mojica was, likewise, convicted by the lower court and sentenced to the same penalty meted out to Ala, for which reason the decision against Mojica, dated June 6, , is now before us, pending review en consulta.