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PEOPLE vs Eleuterio C. Gamboa, Jr.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ELEUTERIO C. GAMBOA, JR., defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 73463 | 1986-10-28

D E C I S I O N


ALAMPAY, J:

Accused Eleuterio C. Gamboa, Jr. appeals from the decision rendered on October 18, 1985, by the Regional Trial Court of Pangasinan, Branch XLV, finding him guilty of the crime of rape and sentencing him "to suffer imprisonment of reclusion perpetua and to indemnify complainant Gemma L. Micua in the amount of Twenty Thousand (P20,000.00) Pesos, and to pay the costs." (Decision in Criminal Case No. U-2030, Rollo, pp. 44-45).

The facts of this case disclose that during the years 1978-79, the accused-appellant herein was a teacher of Bacag Central School, Villasis II, Villasis, Pangasinan. Aside from teaching...