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PEOPLE vs Charito Isug Magbanua

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CHARITO ISUG MAGBANUA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 128888 | 1999-12-03

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

Before the Court for automatic review is the decision[1] rendered by the Regional Trial Court of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, Branch 46,[2] in Criminal Case No. R-3996, finding accused-appellant Charito Isug Magbanua guilty of the crime of rape against his own daughter and sentencing him to suffer the supreme penalty of death and to indemnify the victim in the amount of P50,000.00 as damages.

In an Information filed on 29 May 1996, Charito Magbanua was charged with the crime of rape allegedly committed as follows:

That sometimes (sic) on (sic) the year 1991 and the days thereafter, in Barangay Pawican,...