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PEOPLE Vs. Ronnie D. Cortes, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RONNIE CORTES Y DUANO and DOMINGO LAJOS Y DELA CRUZ, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 105010 | 1993-09-03

D E C I S I O N


NOCON, J.:

Life ended abruptly for the victim in this case. Every wound inflicted on her is indicium of brutality. One cannot help but wonder what could have motivated the assailants in committing the gory deed; however, in the light of their positive identification by the prosecution's eyewitness, motive becomes irrelevant.

The accused-appellants, Ronnie Cortes y Duano and Domingo Lajos y de la Cruz, were charged with the crime of rape with homicide in Criminal Case No. 422 before the Regional Trial Court, Fifth Judicial Region, Branch 50, San Jacinto, Masbate. The information filed in said case reads, as follows:

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