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PEOPLE vs. Emerito Mendez, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EMERITO MENDEZ alias Emer and PATERNO LESULA alias Pating, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-35491 | 1983-05-27

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

Emerito Mendez and Paterno Lesula appealed from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Bohol, finding them guilty of robbery with double rape, sentencing each of them to reclusion perpetua and ordering them to pay solidarily P5,000 each to Rufa Sombrio and Susana Sombrio as damages and P2,100 to the spouses Saturnino Pacomios and Julia Lanzaderos as the value of the objects taken during the robbery (Criminal Case No. 389).

The prosecution sought to prove that in the evening of July 7, 1971, Rufa Sombrio and her two younger sisters, Susana and Rosalina, were in the house of their grandparents,...