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PEOPLE vs. ROMANO VIDAL y DANIEL, GLEN ALA y RODRIGUEZ, and ALEXANDER PADILLA

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROMANO VIDAL y DANIEL, GLEN ALA y RODRIGUEZ, and ALEXANDER PADILLA y LAZATIN, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 90419 | 1999-06-01

D E C I S I O N

BUENA, J.:

Sir William Blackstone once said, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."[1]

Appellants Glen Ala, Romano Vidal and Alexander Padilla were charged with, tried for and thereafter convicted of kidnapping with rape under an amended Information reading:

"That on or about the 19th day of September, 1987, in the municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, conspiring and confederating together and mutually helping and aiding one another, while armed with a knife and ice pick, did, then and there...