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PEOPLE vs. Faustino L. Martinez

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FAUSTINO MARTINEZ y LALONGISIP alias FAUSTO, accused whose death sentence is under review.

G.R. No. L-64499 | 1984-03-06

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

This is a review en consulta of the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Oriental Mindoro, Calapan Branch 40, convicting Faustino Martinez y Lalongisip of rape with homicide, sentencing him to death and ordering him to indemnify the heirs of the minor, Merle Aquino, in the sum of twelve thousand pesos (Criminal Case No. C-1917).

Faustino Martinez, 24, single, a sawer and a resident of Barangay Dulangan, Baco, Oriental Mindoro, was convicted of homicide in 1981 by Judge Aguila in Criminal Case No. 547 of the Court of First Instance at Calapan, Oriental Mindoro. He was sentenced to two years, four months...