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PEOPLE vs EDDIE SERNADILLA

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EDDIE SERNADILLA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 137696 | 2001-01-24

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

This is an automatic review of the decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 57, San Carlos City, Pangasinan[2] convicting accused-appellant of the crime of rape committed against April Joy L. Peroche, a six (6) year old minor, and imposing on him the supreme penalty of death.

In an information dated November 19, 1998, accused-appellant Eddie V. Sernadilla was accused by April Joy L. Peroche, a six (6) year old child, of the crime of rape. The information[3] reads:

"That sometime in the last week of November, 1997, at Barangay Zone V, Municipality of Bayambang, province of Pangasinan, Philippines, and...