Practice question
Three witnesses all testify only that a door was open. The prosecution identifies no other circumstance and claims three witnesses automatically satisfy the multiple-circumstance requirement. Which is correct?
- The accused must disprove all imagined facts
- Three accounts necessarily prove three distinct circumstances
- The door’s color supplies a second circumstance without proof
- Repetition of the same circumstance does not by itself satisfy that requirement
- Witness count alone decides guilt
Legal references
- A.M.19-08-15-SC, current Rules128,130 Sections1,21–22 and133 Sections1–5: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/pdf/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.pdf
- Gamon v. People, G.R.269730, July9,2025, MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/jul2025/gr_269730_2025.html
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