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PEOPLE vs. Mariano Fontanilla

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIANO FONTANILLA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-25354 | 1968-06-28

D E C I S I O N 


CASTRO, J.: 

The appellant Mariano Fontanilla was prosecuted in the justice of the peace court (now municipal court) of San Fernando, La Union for qualified seduction. The criminal complaint, signed by the offended woman Fe Castro and filed on February 28, 1961, charged 

"That on or about the month of September 1960, and for sometime subsequent thereto, in the Municipality of San Juan, Province of La Union, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, with grave abuse of confidence and authority, seduce and...