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PEOPLE vs Clores, Jr

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus LINO CLORES, JR., Appeellant.

G.R. No. 130488 | 2004-06-08

D E C I S I O N





CALLEJO, SR., J.:



This is an automatic review of the Decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Masbate, Branch 44, in Criminal Case No. 7810 convicting the appellant Lino Clores, Jr. of rape, sentencing him to suffer the supreme penalty of death and ordering him to pay damages to the victim in the amount of P50,000.00.



On July 31, 1995, an Information was filed charging Lino Clores, Jr. with rape. The accusatory portion of the Information reads:



That on or about the 4th day of May 1995, in the evening thereof, at Barangay Quezon, Municipality of Uson, Province of Masbate, Philippines, within the...