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PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, VS. RAUL SATO, ACCUSED-APPELLANT.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, VS. RAUL SATO, ACCUSED-APPELLANT.

G.R. No. 190863 | 2014-11-19

SECOND DIVISION
 
R E S O L U T I O N

DEL CASTILLO, J.:

Assailed in this appeal is the March 13, 2009 Decision1 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CEB-CR-H.C. No. 00481 affirming with modifications the July 3, 2006 Judgment2 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 14, Cebu City in Criminal Case No. CBU-70799.  The RTC found appellant Raul Sato (appellant) guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of statutory rape committed against “AAA”3 as described in an Information,4 the pertinent portion of which reads:

That sometime in the afternoon of the 10th day of September, 2004, at x x x, Province...