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PEOPLE vs. Gonzales

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PEDRO GONZALES, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-33926 | 1974-07-31

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

Pedro Gonzales y Lagrosa appealed to the Court of Appeals from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Palawan, convicting him of rape and sentencing him to "life imprisonment" with the recommendation that he be pardoned after serving a sentence of thirty years (Criminal Case No. 335). The Court of Appeals certified the case to this Court (CA-G.R. No. 07434-CR, July 16, 1971).

The appeal is unmeritorious. There can be no reasonable doubt as to appellant's culpability for the act of having carnal intercourse with an eleven-year-old girl. That act is penalized as rape even if no force or intimidation was...