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PEOPLE vs. Leonardo Basas, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LEONARDO BASAS, NESTOR GREGORIO, ROGELIO CADAG and GERARDO MAINGAT, defendants-appellants.

G.R. Nos. L-48019-22 | 1984-06-29

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

Leonardo Basas, Nestor Gregorio, Rogelio Cadag and Gerardo Maingat appealed from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila, convicting them of rape and sentencing them to reclusion perpetua and to indemnify Gloria Badilla in the sum of P10,000 (Criminal Cases Nos. 26116-19). Maingat withdrew his appeal. (Resolution of November 10, 1980.)

The prosecution's evidence shows that at around seven-thirty in the evening of December 2, 1975 Gloria Badilla, 18 (Exh. F), a first year high school student, after alighting from a jeepney at Marcos Road, Barrio Magsaysay, Tondo, Manila, encountered Leonardo...