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PEOPLE vs Renato Ramon

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RENATO RAMON, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 130407 | 1999-12-15

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

For review is another of hundreds of cases which continue to reach this Court because of the imposition by the trial court of the death penalty.

In this instance, accused-appellant Renato Ramon was charged with the crime of rape allegedly committed against his stepdaughter Analyn Manio y Fajilago. When arraigned on 05 March 1996, the accused entered a plea of "not guilty."

The Office of the Solicitor General, in its brief for the People, gives a resume' of the evidence submitted by the prosecution.

"Victim Analyn Manio y Fajilago is one of three children of Josephine Fajilago from her marriage to her first...