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PEOPLE vs. Rogelio P. Mercado, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. ROGELIO MERCADO y PEDRO, REYNALDO MERCADO, RODELIO GUERRERO and GERARDO MATIENZO, accused. ROGELIO MERCADO y PEDRO, REYNALDO MERCADO and RODELIO GUERRERO, appellants.

G.R. No. 111165 | 1997-07-17

D E C I S I O N


MELO, J.:

The proclivity of some men to satisfy their bestial urges upon innocent and unwilling young girls is inhumanly atrocious and calls for unmitigated condemnation in the form of severe penalty.

Accused were charged with rape in an Information reading as follows:

That on or about October 24, 1986, at Barangay Banlic, Municipality of Calamba, Province of Laguna, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused while armed with long firearm with lewd design by means of force, violence and intimidation, conspiring, confederating and mutually helping one another did, then and there,...