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PEOPLE Vs. Alfredo M. Nito

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ALFREDO NITO y MIRANDA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 70305 | 1993-12-15

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

Alfredo Nito y Miranda, a 21-year-old bachelor who had yet to complete his elementary education, was charged with the rape of his girlfriend, Melba Llarena, who was then a 20-year-old student taking up Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education at the Bicol University, in the complaint filed on October 17, 1973 by Melba and her mother, Lourdes Llarena, before the Municipal Court of Daraga, Albay. 1

In due course, the following information was filed against Nito before the then Court of First Instance of Albay, Branch I:

"That on or about October 12, 1973, in the Municipality of Daraga, Province of Albay,...