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PEOPLE vs Escultor

PEOPLE OF THE PHIILPEOPLEINES, appellee, vs. FLORENTINO ESCULTOR, appellant.

G.R. Nos. 149366-67 | 2004-05-27

D E C I S I O N




CARPIO, J.:

The Case

Before this Court for automatic review is the Decision[1] dated 5 June 2001 of the Regional Trial Court of Barili, Cebu, Branch 60 ("trial court"), in Criminal Case Nos. CEB-BRL-478 and CEB-BRL-479. The trial court found Florentino Escultor ("appellant") guilty beyond reasonable doubt of two counts of statutory rape. The dispositive portion of the decision reads:

JUDGMENT is therefore rendered declaring the accused, FLORENTINO ESCULTOR, GUILTY of STATUTORY RAPE and is hereby sentenced to suffer the penalty of Death for each of two (2) counts rape (sic). The accused is further ordered to pay the...