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PEOPLE vs Samuel Buada, et al

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SAMUEL B. BUADA, BENIGNO V. VILLANUEVA and DENNIS VERCELES, accused, BENIGNO V. VILLANUEVA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 137341 | 2002-10-28

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision[1] dated December 17, 1998, of the Regional Trial Court of San Carlos City, Pangasinan, Branch 57, convicting appellant Benigno V. Villanueva of rape in Criminal Case No. SCC-2856 and sentencing him to reclusion perpetua. He was also ordered to indemnify the victim, Marianne Pinky Limson,[2] in the amount of fifty thousand pesos (P50,000).

In an information dated June 17, 1998, Samuel B. Buada, Dennis F. Verceles and Benigno V. Villanueva were charged with rape, allegedly committed as follows:

That on or about May 15, 1998, in the evening or thereafter, in Barangay Bani,...