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PEOPLE vs. Fernando Perello, Jr., et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FERNANDO PERELLO, JR. (at large), JOSE MALIBIRAN, ALMARIO HILARIO and EXEQUIEL AUSTIN B. JOHNSON, JR., III, defendants. EXEQUIEL AUSTIN B. JOHNSON, JR., III, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-33064 | 1982-01-27

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

Exequiel Austin Biliar Johnson, Jr., III, appealed from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, Makati Branch XV, convicting him of robbery with rape, sentencing him to death and ordering him to pay an indemnity of forty thousand pesos to the offended woman (Criminal Case No. 112-M [17303]).

Jose Malibiran and Almario Hilario, who in the same decision were convicted of robbery only, withdrew their appeal. The withdrawal was granted in this Court's resolutions of July 28, 1971 and January 4, 1977 (pp. 143 and 382, Rollo).

Prior to December 2, 1967, Remedios Vengco-Lim, 40, had met in her house...