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PEOPLE Vs. Cristituto B. Alegado

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CRISTITUTO ALEGADO Y BULLO @ "TOTOY," accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 80532 | 1993-11-08

D E C I S I O N


NOCON, J.:

Rape is a crime which is not normally committed in the presence of witnesses, hence, courts merely rely on the credibility of the complainant's testimony as weighed against the credibility of the accused. 1 Understandably, accused-appellant zeroes in on the alleged inconsistencies in the rape victim's testimony to extricate himself from criminal liability. Denying any such inconsistencies, the People point out to the stark-naked fact that the accused-appellant hid for fifteen (15) years right after the rape to elude arrest. Yielding to the Court's constitutionally derived power to review all criminal cases in...