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PEOPLE vs. PEDRO HERNANDEZ

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PEDRO HERNANDEZ y PALMA, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 134449-50 | 2001-10-25

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

For automatic review is the consolidated decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Batangas City, Branch 4, in Criminal Cases Nos. 9094-95, finding appellant Pedro Hernandez y Palma guilty on two (2) counts of rape of his minor daughter, Wilma Nieva Hernandez. For each count appellant was sentenced to death and ordered to pay the victim the sum of P50,000 as moral and exemplary damages.[2]

In Criminal Case No. 9094, the information reads:

That sometime and within the month of October, 1994, at about 10:00 o'clock in the evening, at Brgy. Natunuan, Municipality of San Jose, Province of Batangas, Philippines...