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PEOPLE vs. ROLANDO RIVERA

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROLANDO RIVERA, accused- appellant.

G.R. No. 139180 | 2001-07-31

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This is a review pursuant to Rule 122, §10 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure of the decision,[1] dated June 22, 1999, of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 49, Guagua, Pampanga, finding accused-appellant Rolando Rivera guilty of rape and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of death and to pay the offended party, Erlanie Rivera, the sum of P75,000.00 as compensatory damages and P50,000.00 as moral damages.

The information against accused-appellant charged-

That sometime in the month of March 1997, in barangay Santiago, municipality of Lubao, province of Pampanga, Philippines, and within the...