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PEOPLE Vs. Rodolfo Villaruel

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RODOLFO VILLARUEL, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 110803-04 | 1994-11-25

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

It was the cruel hand of fate, acting through the beast in man, that cut short the young lives of the siblings Adelina and Hayna Garcia, who were respectively thirteen and eleven years of age only. They were mercilessly strangled and found lifeless by their mother who, to add to her anguish and bitterness, would later learn that her daughters had been ravished as well. The evidence adduced pointed to accused-appellant Rodolfo Villaruel, maternal uncle of the ill-starred girls, as the depraved malefactor.

On August 6, 1991, the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Masbate indicted appellant in two...