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PEOPLE vs Elpidio Pastor

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ELPIDIO PASTOR, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 140208 | 2002-03-12

D E C I S I O N

PUNO, J.:

For automatic review is the decision of the Regional Trial Court of the City of Tagbilaran, Branch 2, in Criminal Case No. 10283, dated August 30, 1999, finding accused-appellant Elpidio Pastor guilty of incestuous rape and sentencing him to suffer the supreme penalty of death with its accessory penalties, to indemnify the complainant Maria Niña R. Pastor the sum of P75,000.00, and to pay the costs.[1]

In an Information[2] dated March 12, 1999, accused-appellant was charged with the crime of Incestuous Rape, committed as follows:

"That on or about the 7th day of May, 1998, in the Municipality of Loon,...