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PEOPLE vs Alfredo Alipar

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ALFREDO ALIPAR y ALINSOD, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 137282 | 2001-03-16

D E C I S I O N

DE LEON, JR., J.:

Before us on automatic review[1] is the Decision[2] dated December 29, 1998 of the Regional Trial Court of Santa Cruz, Laguna, Branch 28 in Criminal Case No. SC-6759 finding Alfredo Alipar y Alinsod guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of rape committed against his own daughter, Twinkle F. Alipar, and sentencing him to suffer the supreme penalty of death.

In the early morning of January 23, 1998, Twinkle Alipar, then 13 years old was sleeping near her mother, Annalie Alipar, inside their house in Barangay Sabung, Pagsanjan, Laguna, when her father, herein accused-appellant, Alfredo Alipar, who...