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PEOPLE vs Dioscora Mecado De Arabia, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DIOSCORA MERCADO DE ARABIA and FRANCISCA LITTAUA TOMAS, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 128112 | 2000-05-12

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

This is an appeal from the Decision[1] dated August 30, 1995, of the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 93 in Criminal Case No. Q-93-43368 finding accused-appellants Dioscora Mercado de Arabia (Mercado, for brevity) and Francisca Littaua Tomas (Tomas, for brevity) guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Illegal Recruitment in Large Scale in violation of Article 38 (b) in relation to Article 39 of Presidential Decree No. 442, as amended, otherwise known as the Labor Code of the Philippines, the dispositive portion of which reads:

Wherefore, in view of the foregoing considerations, and in the...