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PEOPLE vs Mariano Sarmiento

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIANO SARMIENTO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 134768 | 2000-10-25

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

For review is the decision[1] dated April 29, 1998 of the Regional Trial Court of Mandaue City, Branch 28, convicting appellant Mariano Sarmiento, and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of death, for the rape of a nine-year-old girl, Jocelyn Soquiño, allegedly committed as follows:

That on September, 1996, and or prior thereto, at Milagrosa Village, Sitio Sambag, Barangay San Vicente, Municipality of Liloan, Province of Cebu, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, with lewd design and by means of force and intimidation, did then and there...