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The People Vs. Reynaldo Po?ado

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REYNALDO PO?ADO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 130334 | 1999-07-28

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

In the recent case of People vs. Dimapilis,[1] the Court spared a convicted accused from the penalty of death because the information charging him with rape mistakenly alleged the victim to be his stepdaughter. The latter, it turned out later when the evidence came in, was the daughter of one with whom the accused merely had a common-law relationship. Here again, for a like thesis, another convicted felon would cheat the extreme punishment of death.

The accused, Reynaldo Poñado, was charged with three counts of rape under Article 335 of the Revised Penal Code in consonance with the amendatory provisions...