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PEOPLE vs. Daniel Hayag

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DANIEL HAYAG, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. L-38635 | 1980-11-17

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

Daniel Hayag appealed from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Davao del Norte, Tagum Branch VIII, convicting him of rape, sentencing him to "imprisonment for the rest of his natural life" and ordering him to pay to Esperanza Ranga ten thousand pesos as moral damages (Criminal Case No. 1210).

Issue is the trustworthiness of the interpreter's verbalization of deaf-mute's sign language. - In this alleged rape of Esperanza, 32, a farm girl and a deaf-mute, the case has been simplified by the admission of the accused, Hayag, 50, a married man with eight children, who finished grade six, that he had...