[No. L-5591.

March 28 1955]

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. ELEUTERIO DE ANANIAS alias ONYONG
ANANIAS, defendant and appellant.

Appeal from a decision of the Court of First Instance of Samar finding the appellant guilty of murder and
sentencing him to suffer the penalty of reclusión perpetua, with the accessory penalties of the law, to
indemnify the heirs of the deceased in the sum of P2,000 without subsidiary imprisonment in case of
insolvency, and to pay the costs.

980

In accordance with the indeterminate sentence law, the defendant should be sentenced to suffer an
indeterminate penalty the minimum of which should be 10 years of prision mayor and the maximum 15
years 6 months and 20 days of reclusión temporal. With the above modification, the decision appealed
from is affirmed in all other respects, with costs against the appellant. Bautista Angelo, J., ponente.

People vs. De Ananias, 96 Phil. 979, No. L-5591 March 28 1955