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PEOPLE vs Felicito Barbosa

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FELICITO BARBOSA y TURALLO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 126899 | 2001-08-02

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On January 30, 1996, the Regional Trial Court of Iriga City, Branch 36, in Criminal Cases Nos. IR-3448, 3449, 3450 and 3451, found accused-appellant Felicito Barbosa y Turallo guilty of four counts of rape, and sentenced him to reclusion perpetua for each count.

The conviction of the appellant stemmed from four separate informations all dated September 15, 1993, which read as follows:

CRIM. CASE NO. IR-3450

That during the year 1988 in Barangay La Purisima, Iriga City, and within the jurisdiction of the Honorable Court, the said accused did, then and there willfully, unlawfully and feloniously have...