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PEOPLE vs San Juan

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARCELINO SAN JUAN y SALAZAR, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 112449-50 | 2000-07-31

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the joint decision dated September 1, 1993, of the Regional Trial Court of Kalookan City, Branch 129, convicting appellant (1) of robbery with rape in Criminal Case No. C-41463 and (2) highway robbery in Criminal Case No. C-41464. He was sentenced in the first case to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua; and in the second case, to the indeterminate penalty of imprisonment from 14 years, 8 months and 1 day as minimum to 17 years, 4 months and 1 day as maximum, of reclusion temporal.

The facts are as follows:

In an Information dated November 11, 1992, the Office of the City Prosecutor of...