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PEOPLE vs. APOLONIO ACOSTA

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. APOLONIO ACOSTA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 142726 | 2001-10-17

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

This is an automatic review of the decision of 3 February 2000 of the Regional Trial Court, Br. 46, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, in its Crim. Case No. R-4328 finding accused Apolonio Acosta guilty of rape and imposing upon him the penalty of death and ordering him to pay his victim P50,000.00 as civil indemnity and P50,000.00 as moral damages.[1]

Maritess Acosta was born on 16 January 1985 in Barangay Canwaling, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, where she lived with her family, the third of seven (7) children of the spouses Pablo Acosta and Narcisa Acosta. She did not finish Grade One although she could...