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PEOPLE vs Eduardo Metin

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. Eduardo Metin, appellant.

G.R. No. 140781 | 2003-05-08

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

For automatic review is the judgment,[1] dated September 22, 1999, of the Regional Trial Court of Lucena City, Branch 53, in Criminal Case No. 97-692 convicting appellant Eduardo Metin of qualified rape, sentencing him to death, and ordering him to pay the amount of P75,000 as civil indemnity and the costs.

The information against appellant reads:

That on or about the 31st day of December 1996, at Poblacion, in the Municipality of Candelaria, Province of Quezon, Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, with lewd design, by means of force, threats and...