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PEOPLE vs Jimmy Mijano y Tamora

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JIMMY MIJANO y TAMORA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 129112 | 1999-07-23

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

Because a man is poor, uneducated and jobless, and lacks catechetical instruction, should he be exempted from the imposition of the death penalty after it is proved beyond moral certainty that he indeed had sexually abused a five-year old girl?

The Court is burdened, once again, with the heavy task of passing upon, by way of automatic review, a judgment of conviction imposing the death penalty for statutory rape, in this case, alleged to have been perpetrated by accused-appellant Jimmy T. Mijano.

Accused-appellant's conviction for said crime arose from an Information reading as follows:

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