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People vs. Landicho

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. IGNACIO LANDICHO, defendant and appellant

No. 289-R | 1947-04-25

 
Lim, J.:

This is an appeal from a decision of the Court of First Instance of Batangas, which found the accused guilty of the crime of attempted rape, and sentenced him to suffer an indeterminate sentence of 6 months of arresto mayor to 2 years 4 months and 1 day of prision correccional, with the accessories of the law, and to pay the costs.

We find from the evidence that between seven and eight in the morning of 26 December 1945, Maria Concepcion Mayuga, wife of Lorenzo Umali, requested her 12-years old daughter, Rosita Umali, to pick some calamansi fruits from a nearby tree growing on a lot belonging to the accused Ignacio Landicho....