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PEOPLE vs. Edmundo Babasa

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EDMUNDO BABASA, accused whose death sentence is under review.

G.R. No. L-38072 | 1980-05-17

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

This is a review en consulta of the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Albay, convicting Edmundo Babasa of forcible abduction with rape, sentencing him to death and ordering him to pay to Magdalena Bermas moral damages amounting to three thousand pesos (Criminal Case No. 158).

At about five o'clock in the afternoon of October 4, 1970 Magdalena Bermas, 18, after watching a movie in the Plaza Theater, in Daraga, Albay, boarded the tricycle of Edmundo Babasa, 30, and directed him to take her to the residence of Aida de Lumen in the Guevarra Subdivision in Daraga where Magdalena worked as a housemaid.

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