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People vs. Santos

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REYNALDO SANTOS, alias "KIRKIR", defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-38512 | 1979-11-16

D E C I S I O N

ANTONIO, J:
Automatic review of the decision of the Court of First Instance of Tarlac, Branch IV, in Criminal Case No. 598, finding Reynaldo Santos, alias "Kirkir" guilty of the crime of rape and imposing upon him the supreme penalty of death, with costs.

The evidence for the prosecution show that at about 2:00 o'clock in the early morning of July 22, 1973, Ernesto Garcia and his children, Myrna, Pablo, Pedro, Violeta and Lourdes, were sleeping in their house at Barrio Nagserialan, Camiling, Tarlac, while his wife, Adelaida Banigued, was still awake weaving a mat. Suddenly shouts for help coming from the neighboring house...