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PEOPLE vs Salvador Villar

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SALVADOR VILLAR, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 127572 | 2000-01-19

D E C I S I O N


MELO, J.:

This Court is once again called upon to discharge the most awesome power in the criminal justice system, where, by way of automatic review, it is mandated to determine whether or not the extreme penalty of death per Section 11 of Republic Act No. 7659, more commonly referred to as the Death Penalty Law, was correctly imposed by the trial court, in this case by Branch 52 of the Regional Trial Court of the Fourth Judicial Region, stationed at Puerto Princesa City, Palawan for the heinous crime of statutory rape committed by a de facto guardian against his 10-year old ward.

Accused-appellant was charged in two...