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PEOPLE Vs. Vicente Binarao, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. VICENTE BINARAO, RUDY CANATA and JOSE COMBIS, JR., appellants.

G.R. No. 134573-75. | 2003-10-23

D E C I S I O N

CORONA, J.:

On appeal is the decision[1] dated August 20, 1997 of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 18 of Tabaco, Albay in Criminal Case Nos. T-2361, T-2362, T-2363, which convicted herein appellants Vicente Binarao, Rudy Canata and Jose Combis, Jr. of rape against then 14-year-old Emma Clapis and sentenced them to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

Appellants were charged in three separate Informations for allegedly committing three counts of rape, the accusatory portions of which similarly read:

"That on or about the 16th day of November, 1991 at about 6:30 o'clock in the evening, more or less, at Barangay...