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PEOPLE vs Benjamin Rafales

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BENJAMIN RAFALES, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 133477 | 2000-01-21

D E C I S I O N

DAVIDE, JR., C.J.:

Accused-appellant Benjamin Rafales (hereafter BENJAMIN) appeals from the 16 May 1997 judgment1 [Original Record (OR), 205-210; Rollo, 21-26. Per Judge Lorenzo R. Silva, Jr.] of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 2, of Balanga, Bataan, in Criminal Case No. 6115, which convicted him of statutory rape and sentenced him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua with the accessory penalties, to pay the victim the amount of P40,000 as civil indemnity and to pay the costs.

The information that charged BENJAMIN with rape reads as follows:

That in or about the month of November 1993 at Brgy. Gen. Lim, Orion,...