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PEOPLE vs Andy Rojas

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ANDY ROJAS y DE DIOS, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 125292 | 2000-04-12

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This case is here on automatic appeal from the decision1 [Per Judge Emilio L. Leachon, Jr.] of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 224, Quezon City finding accused-appellant, Andy Rojas, guilty of rape and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of death and to pay the victim the amount of P50,000.00 as indemnity.

The complaint against accused-appellant reads:

The undersigned accuses ANDY ROJAS Y DE DIOS of the crime of RAPE, committed as follows:

That on or about the 19th day of July, 1994 in Quezon City, Philippines, the said accused by means of force and intimidation, to wit: by then and there wilfully,...