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PEOPLE vs. Ariston Francisco

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARISTON FRANCISCO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-43789 | 1981-07-15

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

This is an automatic review of the Decision, dated March 22, 1976, of the Court of First Instance of Oriental Mindoro, Branch II, in Criminal Case No. R-274, convicting appellant Ariston Francisco of the crime of Rape and sentencing him to death.

The Information, dated March 15, 1972, filed by the Provincial Fiscal of Oriental Mindoro, charged appellant as follows:

"That on the 28th day of January, 1972, at 12:00 o'clock midnight, more or less, at the barrio of Camantigue, Municipality of Bongabon, Province of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the...