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PEOPLE vs Marcelo Caliso

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. MARCELO CALISO, appellant.

G.R. Nos. 131475–76 | 2002-10-14

D E C I S I O N

SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.:

For twice raping his teen-aged daughter, Marcelo Caliso, appellant, was sentenced to suffer the penalties of death in Criminal Case No. 717 and reclusion perpetua in Criminal Case No. 716 by the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 46, Larena, Siquijor in a joint Decision dated September 10, 1997.

Hence this automatic review.

On September 13, 1994, two separate informations were filed with the said RTC charging Marcelo Caliso with rape, committed as follows:

Criminal Case No. 716

"That on or about the second week of July 1993 at 12:00 o'clock noon, at barangay Campalasanan, Municipality of Lazi,...