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PEOPLE vs Gerry Gumahob

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GERRY GUMAHOB, 1 accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 116740 | 1996-11-28

PANGANIBAN, J.:


Appellant seeks exoneration, claiming that the sexual intimacy that happened between him and complainant was the result of mutual consent. But we reject his implausible story and affirm the trial court's judgment of conviction for rape.

Antecedents

Accused-appellant was charged with the crime of rape in a complaint dated October 21, 1993, subscribed and sworn to by the offended party: 2

The undersigned, MARIJUN 3 MONTALBA, the Offended party herein, after having been duly sworn, accused JERRY GUMAHUB 4 of the crime of RAPE, committed as follows:

That on the 18th day of October 1993, at 6:30 o'clock in the evening more...