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PEOPLE vs Gonzales

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus CHRISTIAN GONZALES y CAYUBIT, Appeellant.

G.R. No. 141599 | 2004-06-29

D E C I S I O N




PER CURIAM:


Before us for automatic review is the Decision[1] dated December 27, 1999 of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 259, Parañaque City, in Criminal Case No. 98-371, convicting Christian Gonzales y Cayubit, herein appellant, of rape perpetrated against his own teenage daughter, Mary Grace Gonzales, and imposing upon him the supreme penalty of death. The trial court also ordered him to pay her P50,000.00 as civil indemnity and P50,000.00 as exemplary damages.



The Information filed against appellant charges him as follows:



"That on or about and sometime in August 1997, in the Municipality of...