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PEOPLE vs. Rogelio G. Reyes

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROGELIO REYES y GALAURAN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-33767 | 1980-10-30

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

A prosecution for Rape with Homicide committed against a two-year-old child named Gloria Amador, with the accused, Rogelio Reyes y Galauran, having been convicted and sentenced to death.

On 20 May 1971, Luciana de Castro left the house of the accused in Laisan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro where she and her daughter, the victim Gloria, were staying, to undergo medical treatment at the Health Center of Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro. She entrusted Gloria to the care of the accused during her absence. Upon her return to Laisan, on 23 May, she found the lifeless body of her child. Asked for the cause of...