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PEOPLE vs. Antonio M. Co

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ANTONIO CO y MAGBANUA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. L-38052 | 1988-07-14

D E C I S I O N

NARVASA, J p:

The appellant, Antonio Co, asks for his acquittal of the felony of rape under Article 335 of the Revised Penal Code of which he was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt by the Trial Court 1 and for which, absent any modifying circumstance, he was correspondingly sentenced "to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua (life imprisonment) with the accessories provided for by law and to pay the costs." 2

The information, to which on arraignment he had pleaded not guilty and under which he was after trial convicted, charged him with having, by means of force and intimidation, . . . wilfully, unlawfully and...