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PEOPLE Vs. Henry Padero

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. HENRY PADERO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 106274 | 1993-09-28

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

In a complaint 1 filed on 21 January 1992 with Branch 45 of the Regional Trial Court of Bais City, Negros Oriental and docketed therein as Criminal Case No. 741-B, Jocelyn Cadeliña, a sixteen-year-old lass and a resident of sitio Amalao, barangay Tagpo of Bais City, charged Henry Padero, her uncle-in-law, with the crime of rape committed as follows:

"That on or about August 31, 1991, at Bais City, Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, said accused, armed with a knife, and by means of force and intimidation, did then and there, willfully, unlawfully and feloniously have...