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PEOPLE vs. Gil Munar

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GIL MUNAR, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-40462 | 1984-07-31

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

The accused, Gil Munar, appeals his conviction for the crime of Rape by the Court of First Instance of Pangasinan, Branch IX, on August 20, 1971, which sentenced him to an indeterminate penalty of ten (10) years and one (1) day of prision mayor as minimum to seventeen (17) years, four (4) months and one (1) day of reclusion temporal as maximum, to indemnify the offended party, a mentally retarded girl of 19 years of age, in the sum of P5,000.00, and to pay the costs of suit. 1

In a Resolution, dated December 23, 1974, the Court of Appeals (now Intermediate Appellate Court) where the appeal was...