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PEOPLE vs Oscar Calamlam

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. OSCAR CALAMLAM y AGNAZATA, accused-appellant.

G. R. Nos. 137414-15 | 2003-05-29

D E C I S I O N

CARPIO-MORALES, J:

This is an appeal from the January 6, 1999 decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 34, Calamba, Laguna finding appellant Oscar Calamlam guilty of two counts of rape.

In two informations dated August 27, 1997, appellant was charged before the Calamba RTC with two counts of rape of his daughter Mary Jane, docketed as Criminal Case Nos. 5487-97-C and 5488-97-C. The inculpatory portions of the informations read as follows:

Criminal Case No. 5488-97-C

That sometime in September 1989, at at (sic) Brgy. Maahas, Municipality of Los Baños Province of Laguna and within the jurisdiction of...