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PEOPLE vs. I. Joven

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. IGNACIO JOVEN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-36022 | 1975-05-22

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

Fate apparently dealt a low blow to the Orbeso family when on the evening of November 30, 1970, the daughter, Ruby, not even fifteen then, alone in the rented room in a house at Agdao Beach, Davao City, where she was living with her mother, who was then away for the night, was, according to her complaint for rape, compelled to submit twice because of force to the sexual advances of the accused Ignacio Joven, also a boarder in the same house. There was no denial of the acts of intercourse having taken place, but the accused would insist that complainant did so willingly, the explanation, according to him,...