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People vs. Leticia Sagayaga

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. LETICIA SAGAYAGA, ALMA SO, VICENTE SO YAN HAN and ORLANDO BURGOS, accused. LETICIA SAGAYAGA, appellant.

G.R. No. 143726 | 2004-02-23

SECOND DIVISION

D E C I S I O N

 

CALLEJO, SR., J.:

 

This is an appeal from the Decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 35, convicting the appellant Leticia Sagayaga of large scale illegal recruitment as defined in Section 6, Republic Act No. 8042 and sentencing her to suffer life imprisonment.

 

The Indictment

 

The appellant was charged with large scale illegal recruitment in an Information, the accusatory portion of which reads:

That during the period from October 1997 to December 1997 and sometime prior or subsequent thereto, in the City of Manila, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable...