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The People of the Philippines Vs. Antonio Dalisay y Destresa

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus ANTONIO DALISAY y DESTRESA, Appeellant

G.R. No. 188106 | 2009-11-25

D E C I S I O N


NACHURA, J.:

For final review by the Court is the trial court's conviction of appellant Antonio Dalisay for rape. In the October 23, 2008 Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR-H.C. No. 02836, the appellate court, on intermediate review, affirmed with modification the April 11, 2007 Decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 88 of Quezon City in Criminal Case No. Q-03-119026.

The victim in this case was, at the time of the incident, a 16-year-old lass, who, together with her siblings, stayed with her mother's live-in partner, appellant Dalisay, in a rented second-floor room in Fairview, Quezon...