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PEOPLE vs Ortizuela

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus Federico Ortizuela y Eugenio, Appeellant.

G.R. No. 135675 | 2004-06-23

DECISION



PER CURIAM:


For automatic review is the Decision[1] dated August 24, 1998 of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 262, Pasig City in Criminal Case No. 111103-H finding Federico Ortizuela, herein appellant,

guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of rape and imposing upon him the supreme penalty of death. He was ordered to pay his daughter, Rhea Ortizuela y Obillo, P50,000.00 as civil indemnity.



The Information[2] charging appellant with statutory rape is quoted as follows:



"That on or about April 5, 1996, in Pasig City and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the accused, with lewd design and by means of...