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PEOPLE vs. Murphy Banzales, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MURPHY BANZALES y ILAGAN and JOSEPHINE DIADOLA, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-63260 | 1987-03-20

D E C I S I O N

FERNAN, J p:

Murphy Banzales and Josephine Diadola appeal from the judgment of the then Court of First Instance of Quezon, Lucena City, Branch 2 in Criminal Case No. 3622, ** convicting them of rape and sentencing them to an indeterminate penalty ranging from reclusion temporal as minimum to reclusion perpetua as maximum and to pay an indemnity of P30,000.00 to the victim, Rosalina Ricarfort [Records, p. 108].

The evidence for the prosecution shows that at about three o'clock in the afternoon of June 17, 1982, Rosalina Ricarfort, then a seventeen-year old cosmetology student residing at Riverside Subdivision, Lucena...