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People vs. Jastiva

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, VS. AURELIO JASTIVA, ACCUSED-APPELLANT.

G.R. No. 199268 | 2014-02-12

FIRST DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N

LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, J.:

Before this Court is the final appeal[1] of Aurelio Jastiva from his conviction for the crime of rape in Criminal Case No. 12772, entitled “People of the Philippines v. Aurelio Jastiva,” by the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 9, in Dipolog City on September 1, 2009,[2] which the Court of Appeals affirmed with slight modification through its Decision[3] promulgated on August 31, 2011 in CA-G.R. CR.-H.C. No. 00754-MIN.

Gathered from the records of the case, the facts are as follows:

On September 29, 2004, appellant Jastiva was charged in the RTC with rape penalized under...