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People vs. Roderick Loriega and Gary Arevalo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RODERICK LORIEGA and GARY AREVALO, accused-appellants.

G.R. Nos. 116009-10 | 2000-02-29

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision promulgated on June 6, 1994, by the Regional Trial Court of Legazpi City, Branch 5, in Criminal Case Nos. 5987 and 5988 finding appellants Roderick Loriega and Gary Arevalo guilty of two counts of rape as defined under paragraph (2) of Article 335 of the Revised Penal Code.

Prosecutor German Mata charged appellants with the crime of rape in two separate informations, both dated November 27, 1992. The accusatory portion of one information docketed as Criminal Case No. 5987 states:

"The undersigned Prosecutor II of Albay, upon the sworn complaint of Angielyn Marco,...