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PEOPLE vs Norberto S Lopez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. NORBERTO SOLEMA LOPEZ, accused-appellant

G.R. No. 129397 | 1999-02-08

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

This Court is tasked, once again, to pass upon by way of automatic review the judgement of conviction imposing the death penalty1 [Pursuant to Article 47 of the Revised penal Code, as Amended by Section 22, RA 7659 entitled An Act To Impose Death Penalty on Certain Heinous Crimes, Amending for that Purpose the Revised Penal Code, as amended, Other Special Penal Laws, and for other Purposes. The law took effect on 31 December 1993.] in an incestuous rape, said to have been perpetrated by the accused, NORBERTO LOPEZ Y SOLEMA, on his own daughter Christine Rose A. Lopez.

The accusatory portion of the indictment...