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The People of the Phil. vs. Lamberto Rafon

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus LAMBERTO RAFON, Appeellant.

G.R. No. 169059 | 2007-09-05

D E C I S I O N
 


Tinga, J.:

This treats of the appeal from the Decision[1] dated 5 May 2005 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR-H.C. No. 00115 affirming the Decision[2] dated 8 July 2002 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Gumaca, Quezon, Branch 61 in Criminal Case Nos. 6204-G and 6694-G where appellant Lamberto Rafon was found guilty of raping his minor daughter and sentenced to suffer the penalty of death.

In two (2) separate Informations[3] filed on 5 March 1999, appellant was charged, the accusatory portions of which read, thus:


Criminal Case No. 6204-G

That sometime in the year 1994, at Barangay x x x,[4] Municipality of x x...