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PEOPLE vs. Herminigildo Munoz

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. HERMINIGILDO MUNOZ, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-45517 | 1980-12-19

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

This is an automatic review of the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Davao del Sur, Branch V, in Criminal Case No. 45 (74) imposing the death penalty on Herminigildo Muñoz for having raped his own daughter with the use of deadly weapon.

The evidence for the prosecution shows that in 1971 Marina Muñoz, the victim, was residing in Barrio Basuga, Magsaysay, Davao del Sur, together with her parents, three brothers and four sisters. 1 One night, during the latter part of March of that year, only Marina, her father Herminigildo, her two little brothers and three younger sisters were left in the house. The...