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PEOPLE Vs. Teodoro Miranda, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. TEODORO MIRANDA alias "Bong," LUISITO TOLENTINO and DANIEL E. PALAFOX, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 92369 | 1994-08-10

D E C I S I O N


VITUG, J.:

This appeal 1 assails the decision, 2 in Criminal Case No. 88-0543-M of the Regional Trial Court of Pampanga, Branch 55 at Macabebe, convicting Teodoro Miranda alias "Bong," Luisito Tolentino and Daniel E. Palafox of the crime of robbery with rape and imposing on them the penalty of "life imprisonment or reclusion perpetua," as well as ordering said accused to pay Mercedita Chan, by way of indemnity, the sum of Seven Hundred Sixteen Thousand Four Hundred Fifty Pesos (P716,450.00).

Appellants were charged, along with one Tony Rojo and a certain Dante Cerdena, in an information, dated 01 September 1993, as...