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People vs. Tirso Sace y Montoya

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus TIRSO SACE y MONTOYA, Accused-Appeellant

G.R. No. 178063 [Formerly G.R. No. 149894] | 2010-04-05

DECISION



VILLARAMA, JR., J.:

This is an appeal from the Decision[1] dated November 20, 2006 of the Court of Appeals in CA- G.R. CR-H.C. No. 02324 which affirmed the June 1, 2001 Decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Boac, Marinduque, Branch 94 convicting appellant Tirso Sace y Montoya of the crime of rape with homicide.

Appellant was charged in an Information[3] which reads,

That on or about the 9th day of September 1999, at around 7:00 o'clock in the evening, at barangay Tabionan, municipality of Gasan, province of Marinduque, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused did then and...