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PEOPLE vs Severino Gonzales

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SEVERINO GONZALES y DE VERA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 129894 | 2000-08-11

D E C I S I O N
MENDOZA, J.:
Being of the opinion that accused-appellant should have been sentenced to reclusion perpetua, the Court of Appeals,[1] to which this case had originally been appealed, certified it to us pursuant to Rule 124, §13 of the Rules of Court.[2]
The information[3] alleged:
At the instance of the private complainant Sharon Morandarte Gonzales, in her complaint under oath filed before the Municipal Trial Court of San Pedro, Laguna, the undersigned 3rd Assistant Provincial Fiscal of Laguna, accuses Severino Gonzales y De Vera of the crime of Kidnapping with Attempted Rape, committed as follows:
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