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PEOPLE vs Saturnino Iluis

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SATURNINO ILUIS y JANDOC, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 145995 | 2003-03-20

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

In Criminal Case No. V-0786, the Regional Trial Court of Pangasinan, Branch 50, found Saturnino Iluis y Jandoc @ "Masong" guilty beyond reasonable doubt of rape "defined and penalized under Item No. 4 of the last paragraph of Article 335 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended," and sentenced him to suffer the penalty of death, as well as to pay civil indemnity of fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00) to the victim, Juliene M. Abriam, for the crime.

The Information that Juliene Abriam, assisted by her grandmother, caused to be filed in court on 23 June 1998, read:

"That sometimes [sic] between the months of August...