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PEOPLE vs Manuel Cula and Joselito Lopez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MANUEL CULA y BANDILLA, and JOSELITO LOPEZ y ROCO, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 133146 | 2000-03-28

D E C I S I O N

MELO, J.:

Before the Court on automatic review is the decision dated March 16, 1998 of the Regional Trial Court of the National Capital Judicial Region (Branch 219, in Quezon City), convicting accused~appellants of rape, as follows:

WHEREFORE, finding both accused guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of rape as charged in the Information and defined and penalized under Article 335 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended by R.A. 7659, the Court hereby sentences accused MANUEL CULA (1) to suffer the penalty of death; (2) to pay the complainant P50,000.00 as moral damages and P30,000.00 as exemplary damages; and (3) to...