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PEOPLE Vs. Danilo Palicte

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DANILO PALICTE, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 101088 | 1994-01-27

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

DANILO PALICTE appeals from the decision of the court a quo 1 convicting him of rape and sentencing him to reclusion perpetua.

On 23 September 1988, around nine o'clock in the morning, Edievien Bañados, then only eleven (11) years old, was playing shatung with her brothers in front of the house of Danilo Palicte when the latter called her to go to him. He asked her to buy coke, bread, egg and cigarettes, but not before sending her brothers home. After Edievien came back with the goods, she and Danilo stayed in the living room and drank the coke. When she was about to leave, Danilo blocked her way...