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People of the Philippines Vs. Leodegario Bascuguin y Agquiz

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus LEODEGARIO BASCUGIN[1] y AGQUIZ, Accused-Appeellant.

G.R. No. 184704 | 2009-06-30

D E C I S I O N


VELASCO, JR., J.:

This is an appeal from the January 16, 2008 Decision[2] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR-H.C. No. 01855 which affirmed the August 15, 2005 Decision[3] in Criminal Case No. 4371 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 10 in Balayan, Batangas. The RTC found accused-appellant Leodegario Bascugin guilty of rape with homicide.

The Facts

In an information dated June 21, 1999, Bascugin was charged with rape with homicide committed as follows:

That on or about the 4th day of June, 1999 at about 7:45 o'clock in the evening, at Barangay [XXX], Municipality of Balayan, Province of Batangas,...