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PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. Amores

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. WENDELINO AMORES, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. L-32996 | 1974-08-21

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This is a rape case. The prosecution's evidence shows that at about nine o'clock in the morning of July 12, 1966 Petronila Baligasa, fourteen years old, and her half-brother, Julito Santillan, eleven years old, both orphans, were in the farm of Sedronico Bantug located at Barrio Bungao, Valencia, Oriental Negros. They had been directed by their grandmother, Valentina Sarmiento, to gather cornstalks (kumpay) in that farm. Bantug is related to Petronila.

While they were engaged in that task, Wendelino Amores and Proculo Inquig (eighteen and sixteen years old, respectively) appeared at the scene. Petronila had...