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PEOPLE Vs. Ed Fernandez Avila

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ED FERNANDEZ AVILA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 84918 | 1990-12-21

D E C I S I O N


PADILLA, J.:

This is an appeal interposed by the defendant Ed Fernandez Avila from the judgment ** rendered in Criminal Case No. 1548 of the Regional Trial Court at Malaybalay, Bukidnon, finding him guilty of the crime of Rape and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the offended party in the amount of P50,000.00.

The facts of the case, according to the People's counsel, are, as follows:

"Complainant Martina Subog was a 31-year old Manobo spinster, somewhat naive and guileless, barely four feet and eleven inches in height and eighty pounds in weight on October 4, 1976 when she...