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PEOPLE Vs. Jimmy Conte

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JIMMY CONTE, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 113513-14 | 1995-08-23

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

A snake! That is how people call a person who bites the hand that feeds him or who commits a grievous wrong against another to whom he owes a debt of gratitude. That is probably how Bernardo Crisostomo would call his farm helper, accused-appellant Jimmy Conte, who allegedly raped the wife and kidnapped and illegally detained the two children of the former.

Jimmy Conte was charged with serious illegal detention with rape in an information 1 in Criminal Case No. 9006 and with kidnapping with serious illegal detention in an information 2 Criminal Case No. 9007 which were filed on 3 October 1990 with the...