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PEOPLE vs. Carlos P. Garcia

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. ENGR. CARLOS GARCIA y PINEDA, PATRICIO BOTERO y VALES, LUISA MIRAPLES (at large), accused, PATRICIO BOTERO y VALES, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 117010 | 1997-04-18

D E C I S I O N


PUNO, J.:

Before us is an appeal from the decision of the Regional Trial Court in Criminal Case No. 93871 convicting accused-appellant Patricio Botero of illegal recruitment in large scale and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of life imprisonment. 1

In an Information dated July 21, 1992, accused-appellant Patricio Botero together with Carlos P. Garcia and Luisa Miraples were charged with the crime of illegal recruitment in large scale defined by Article 38 (b) and penalized under Article 39 (a) of the Labor Code, as amended by Presidential Decree Nos. 1920 and 2018, committed as follows:

That on or before March 2,...