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PEOPLE vs. Edwin Loredo

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EDWIN LOREDO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-64167 | 1984-07-31

D E C I S I O N


CONCEPCION JR., J.:

This is an appeal from the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Iloilo City in Criminal Case No. 11604 finding the accused Edwin Loredo guilty of Rape, sentencing him to suffer the penalty of Reclusion Perpetua, to indemnify the offended party, Maxiline Bautista, the sum of P5,000.00, as moral damages, without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, together with all the accessory penalties provided for by law and to pay the costs.

The People's version of the facts is as follows:

"Maxiline Bautista testified that, at about 7:00 o'clock in the evening of March 4, 1979, a Sunday, she left...