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PEOPLE Vs. Joel B. Sartagoda, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOEL SARTAGODA y BOCANEGRA, JIMMY BASCU?A y LAZARTE, VICENTE STA. ANA y GUTIERREZ and JOHN DOE, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 97525 | 1993-04-07

D E C I S I O N


CAMPOS, JR., J.:

The Regional Trial Court, Fourth Judicial Region, Branch 36, Calamba, Laguna convicted all three accused-appellants in its decision ** dated November 7, 1990, the dispositive portion of which reads:

"WHEREFORE, the court hereby finds the accused Joel Sartagoda y Bocanegra, Jimmy Bascoña (sic) y Lazarte and Vicente Sta. Ana y Gutierrez all guilty beyond reasonable doubt as co-principals of the crime of Robbery With Rape, defined and penalized in Article 294, paragraph 2 of the Revised Penal Code; there being two aggravating circumstances without any mitigating circumstance to offset the same,...