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PEOPLE vs ERNESTO MONTEJO

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ERNESTO MONTEJO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 133475 | 2001-03-26

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision,[1] dated October 3, 1997, of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 24, Cagayan de Oro City, finding accused-appellant Ernesto Montejo guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of rape and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the complainant Juvelyn Labalan y Boiles[2] in the amount of P50,000.00 without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency but with full credit for the preventive imprisonment he had already served.

The record shows that on November 29, 1989, a criminal complaint for simple seduction, allegedly committed on...