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PEOPLE vs Jose B. Canicula

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOSE B. CANICULA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 131807 | 2002-08-06

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

This is an automatic review of the Decision dated October 7, 1997 of the Regional Trial Court, Fifth Judicial Region, Branch 15, Tabaco, Albay, finding the accused-appellant guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Rape with Homicide and imposing upon him the supreme penalty of death.

The Information reads as follows:

That in the evening of December 25, 1996, at Barangay Jonop, Municipality of Malinao, Province of Albay, Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, with lewd design and by means of violence, force and intimidation, did then and there...