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PEOPLE vs. Rodolfo Mendoza

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RODOLFO MENDOZA, alias RODEL, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-45679 | 1982-09-30

D E C I S I O N


RELOVA, J.:

Appeal from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Leyte, finding the accused Rodolfo Mendoza guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of rape and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of RECLUSION PERPETUA and to pay the offended party Lolita Domingo the amount of Two Thousand Pesos (P2,000.00) as moral damages.

Prosecution evidence shows that in the early morning of April 20, 1974, while complainant Lolita Domingo was alone in a room of her house in the poblacion of Tolosa, Leyte, nursing her six-month-old baby, she was awakened by the appellant whom she had known for the last three years. She...