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PEOPLE vs. Arturo Talaro

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARTURO TALARO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-40436 | 1984-05-25

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

Sentenced to reclusion perpetua for the crime of rape by the former Court of First Instance of Ilocos Norte (Laoag City), Arturo Talaro y Hernandez appealed the sentence of conviction.

For its accuracy, the statement of facts in the decision of the lower court was quoted as its counter-statement of facts by the Government, and which for the purpose of this decision, may as well also be quoted:

"It appears from the evidence of the prosecution that complaining witness Aida Ines, aged 16 and an honor student, was sometime in the evening of March 22, 1969, an usherette in an operetta presentation at St. Jude...