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PEOPLE vs Anthony Manguera

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ANTHONY MANGUERA y ALINGASTRE, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 139906 | 2003-03-05

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

Anthony Manguera was sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of death by the Regional Trial Court, Branch 6, of Tanauan, Batangas, for raping and killing Lorna Reanzares. The conviction of Manguera rested largely on the declaration made by the victim shortly before she died.

Anthony Manguera was charged with the crime of rape with homicide before the Regional Trial Court, Branch 6, of Tanauan, Batangas, in an information that read:

"That on or about the 25th day of February 1996, at about 6:30 o'clock in the evening, at Barangay San Miguel, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Province of Batangas, Philippines, and...