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PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. Alvarez

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. NICANOR ALVAREZ, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-34644 | 1974-01-17

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

The existence of grave misgivings as to appellant Nicanor Alvarez committing the crime of rape for which he was sentenced to reclusion perpetua, misgivings engendered by the telltale circumstances of time and place, caused hesitancy on the part of this Tribunal to grant his petition to withdraw his appeal, submitted after the briefs for both the State and the defense had been filed and the case was ready for decision. More specifically, it is not easy for the judicial conscience to be at ease with the conclusion that his guilt had been shown beyond reasonable doubt on such tenuous and ambiguous proof as that...