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People vs. R. Alarcon y Tioxon

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus ROGELIO ALARCON y TIOXON, Appeellant,

G.R. No. 174199 | 2007-03-07

D E C I S I O N
 


Tinga, J.:

Subject of this automatic review is the Decision[1] promulgated by the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CR-HC No. 01000. The appellate court had affirmed the Regional Trial Court's (RTC) judgment in Criminal Case No. 8620-2001-C finding appellant guilty of qualified rape but modified the RTC judgment in Criminal Case No. 8621-2001-C by finding appellant guilty of acts of lasciviousness only instead of rape.

Based on the complaints filed by private complainant AAA[2], assisted by Sister Laura P. Chavez (Sister Laura), appellant was charged with two (2) counts of statutory rape. In Criminal Case No. 8620-2001-C,...