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PEOPLE vs Oscar Dante

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. OSCAR M. DANTE, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 127652 | 2001-12-05

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

Before us on automatic review is the Decision[1] dated November 27, 1996 of the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 76, in Criminal Case No. 96-65488, finding accused-appellant Oscar M. Dante guilty of rape and imposing on him the death penalty.

In a criminal complaint filed on March 29, 1996, accused-appellant was charged with the crime of rape, committed as follows -

That on or about the 25th day of March, 1996, in Quezon City, Philippines, the said accused by means of force and intimidation, to wit: by then and there willfully, unlawfully and feloniously removed (sic) her clothes and...