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PEOPLE vs. Esteban Victor

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ESTEBAN VICTOR y PENIS, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 127903 | 1998-07-09

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

Before the Court for automatic review is the judgment handed down in this case by the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 95, on December 16, 1996 finding accused-appellant Esteban Victor y Penis guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of rape and sentencing him to suffer the supreme penalty of death, as well as to pay the corresponding civil liability to the victim.1

Appellant was charged with rape in a complaint dated August 8, 1996, which somewhat faultily but sufficiently alleges:

That sometime in June 1996 in Quezon City, Philippines, the said accused by means of force and intimidation, to...