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PEOPLE Vs. Joselito R. Mercado

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOSELITO MERCADO Y DEL ROSARIO alias "Jojo Mercado", accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 72726 | 1990-10-15

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision ** dated June 13, 1985 of the Regional Trial Court, National Capital Region, Branch 152, Pasig, Metro Manila in Criminal Case No. 49976, finding accused Joselito Mercado guilty of the crime of rape, and sentencing him to suffer a prison term of reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the offended party Marietta L. Pequit in the amounts of P20,000.00 and P10,000.00 for moral and exemplary damages respectively. 1

The facts as found by the trial court are as follows:

On March 11, 1982, at about five o'clock in the afternoon, complainant Marietta L. Pequit, 21 years old, left...