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PEOPLE Vs. Bobby Sanchez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. BOBBY SANCHEZ y PAGUIA, appellant.

G.R. No. 135563 | 2003-09-18

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

Before us on automatic review is the decision,[1] dated August 20, 1998 of the Regional Trial Court of Malaybalay, Bukidnon (Branch 8) convicting appellant Bobby Sanchez y Paguia of rape in Criminal Case No. 8742-97, sentencing him to the supreme penalty of death and ordering him to pay the offended party the amount of P30,000.00 as civil indemnity and the amount of P15,000.00 as moral damages.

In an information dated December 15, 1997, 17-year old Arlene Sanchez accuses her brother, Bobby Sanchez y Paguia, of rape, committed as follows:

That on or about the 30th day of September 1997, in the morning, at...