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PEOPLE vs CLEMENTE DAYNA

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. CLEMENTE DAYNA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 134486 | 2001-11-16

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

Before us on automatic review is the decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Dipolog City, Branch 8, finding accused-appellant Clemente Dayna guilty of rape and imposing on him the penalty of death.

Appellant was charged under an Information which reads:

The undersigned, Provincial Prosecutor, upon a sworn complaint, originally filed by the private offended party, accuses CLEMENTE DAYNA y Agayan of the crime of RAPE, committed as follows:

That, in the morning, on or about the 21st day of December, 1994, in the municipality of Piñan, Zamboanga del Norte, within the jurisdiction of this...