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PEOPLE vs Conde Rapisora

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CONDE RAPISORA y ESTRADA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 138086 | 2001-01-25

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

Before this Court, by way of automatic review, is the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Mandaluyong City, Branch 214,[1] convicting Conde E. Rapisora of the complex crime of "Forcible Abduction with Rape" and sentencing him to suffer the supreme penalty of death.

Rapisora was indicted in an information that read:

"That on or about the 5th day of August, 1997, in the City of Mandaluyong, Philippines, a place within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, while armed with a knife, and pretending to be a relative of the private complainant and against the will of Irene Hermo y...