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PEOPLE vs Mario Marabillas

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIO MARABILLAS y CA?EDA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 127494 | 1999-02-18

D E C I S I O N


PARDO, J.:

The case before the Court is an appeal taken by the accused Mario Marabillas y Cañeda from a decision1 [Penned by Judge Senecio O. Tan.] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 34, Balaoan, La Union, convicting him of rape and sentencing him to reclusion perpetua and the accessory penalties provided for by law; and to indemnify the complainant, a grade six pupil, who stopped schooling because of the incident, the amount of P50,000.00 as moral damages, without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency.

On March 17, 1992, an Assistant Provincial Prosecutor of La Union, upon complaint under oath of Lourdes L....