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PEOPLE vs Dominador Hostorillo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DOMINADOR HISTORILLO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 130408 | 2000-06-16

D E C I S I O N

BUENA, J.:

Before us by way of automatic review is the judgment of conviction rendered by the Regional Trial Court of Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro, Branch 41, imposing the death penalty in an incestuous rape, said to have been perpetrated by the accused-appellant Dominador Historillo, on his own daughter Jennifer Historillo.

The criminal complaint dated November 29, 1995 reads:

"That in the month of March 1995, or thereabouts, at sitio Bacolod, Barangay Quinabigan, Municipality of Pinamalayan, Province of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused...