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PEOPLE. Vs. Diosdado Pedrosa

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DIOSDADO PEDROSA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 56457 | 1989-01-27

D E C I S I O N


SARMIENTO, J.:

The appellant, Dioscoro Pedrosa, was convicted by the trial court* of the special complex crime of Rape with Homicide committed against Maria Belen Almaden, a nine-year old girl, and was accordingly sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of death. The victim was brutally strangled to death after having been sexually assaulted and abused.

Before us on automatic review, the appellant, who was twenty three years old at the time of his conviction, three years after the commission of the crime, prays for acquittal, denying his participation in such a barbaric, inhuman, and heartless crime.

The evidence for...