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PEOPLE vs. Ernesto Belo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ERNESTO BELO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 109148 | 1998-12-04

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision1 [Penned by Judge Edgar S. Surtida.] of the Regional Trial Court of Naga City, Branch 26, in Criminal Case No. 92-3892, convicting accused-appellant Ernesto Belo of the crime of Robbery with Rape and imposing upon him the penalty of reclusion perpetua and ordering him to return the amount of P5,060.00 taken from the victim and to pay her the amount of P50,000.00 as indemnity.

On October 11, 1991, at around 1:00 o'clock in the morning, Leonila Pellosis was tending to her sick infant in their house in Dike, Del Carmen, Minalabac, Camarines Sur, when she heard footsteps near their...