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PEOPLE vs Manuel Lopez

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff - appellee, vs. MANUEL LOPEZ @ “AWE”, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 134774 | 2002-04-19

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision[1] dated April 14, 1998, of the Regional Trial Court of Daet, Camarines Norte, Branch 38, convicting appellant Manuel Lopez @ Awe of rape in Criminal Case No. 8108 and sentencing him to suffer reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the offended party in the amount of fifty thousand pesos (P50,000).

In an information dated January 10, 1994, Manuel Lopez @ Awe was accused of rape defined and penalized under Article 335 of the Revised Penal Code, committed as follows:

That on or about 10:00 o'clock in the evening of October 16, 1993, at Brgy. San Vicente, municipality of...