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PEOPLE vs Ireneo Padilla

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. IRENEO PADILLA y VILLASE?OR alias “Iring,” defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 137648 | 2001-03-30

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

On automatic review is the decision of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 166 of Pasig City in Criminal Case No. 109270-H finding herein accused-appellant Ireneo Padilla y Villaseñor guilty beyond reasonable doubt of raping his own daughter and sentencing him to suffer the supreme penalty of death.

On November 8, 1995, Eula Padilla,[1] assisted by her mother, Esmeralda D. Sarmiento, filed a complaint charging her father, Ireneo Padilla with rape, committed as follows:

That on or about the 3rd day of November, 1995 in the Municipality of Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of...