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PEOPLE vs Mendiola

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DELANO MENDIOLA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 134846 | 2000-08-08

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

For automatic review by this Court is the decision of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 166, Pasig City, finding the accused-appellant guilty beyond reasonable doubt of raping his five-year old daughter and sentencing him the supreme penalty of death.

Upon a complaint filed by Consuelo Pedrosa in behalf of her granddaughter, Daryll Mendiola, the information for rape was filed which reads:

That sometime in the year 1994, in the City of Pasig, Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, with lewd designs and by means of force and intimidation, did then and there...