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PEOPLE vs Domingo Pagpaguitan and Roberto Salazar

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DOMINGO PAGPAGUITAN, alias "PINGKONG" and ROBERTO SALAZAR alias "OPAW", accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 116599 | 1999-09-27

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the Decision of the Regional Trial Court of Butuan City, Branch I, finding appellants Domingo Pagpaguitan and Roberto Salazar guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of rape and sentencing them to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and to pay private complainant Evelyn Nalam, jointly and severally, the amount of P30,000.00 as moral damages.

Assisted by her father, Federico Nalam, complainant on March 24, 1992, filed before the Butuan City Prosecutor a complaint stating that:

"The undersigned complainant accuses DOMINGO PAGPAGUITAN alias Pingkong and ROBERTO SALAZAR alias Opaw of...