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PEOPLE vs. Balbuena, Abelardo , et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ABELARDO BALBUENA and JUANITO TORRES, accused-appellants.

G.R. Nos. L-44859-60 | 1984-04-27

D E C I S I O N


GUERRERO, J.:

Appeal from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, Branch XII, Caloocan City, promulgated on August 6, 1976, in Criminal Cases Nos. C-6848 (75) and C-6849 (75) convicting herein accused Abelardo Balbuena and Juanito Torres for the crime of RAPE and sentencing each of them to suffer in each case the penalty of reclusion perpetua and to pay the costs.

The two separate informations dated November 20, 1975 filed by Asst. City Fiscal Romeo C. Cortes upon the complaint of the offended party, Elvira Polintan, single, 20 years of age, a senior criminology student of the Philippine College of...