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PEOPLE vs Samontanez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROBERTO SAMONTA?EZ y DELA VEGA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 134530 | 2000-12-04

D E C I S I O N

DE LEON, JR., J.:

Before us on automatic review is the Decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 14, of Nasugbu, Batangas dated May 15, 1998 in Criminal Case No. 1032 convicting the appellant, Roberto V. Samontañez, of the crime of rape with homicide and sentencing him to suffer the supreme penalty of death.

In the early morning of November 25, 1995, Corazon delas Alas saw her daughter, eighteen (18) year-old Lolita delas Alas, off to school from their residence in Sitio Ilaya, Barangay Bunducan, Nasugbu, Batangas. That was the last time Corazon had seen her alive because at 8:00 o'clock in the evening of...