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People vs. Baay

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, V. JONATHAN BAAY Y FALCO, ACCUSED-APPELLANT.

G.R. No. 220143 | 2017-06-07

D E C I S I O N
 
TIJAM, J.:
 
This is an appeal from the Decision[1] dated February 26, 2015 of the Court of Appeals (CA), Eighteenth Division, Cebu City, in CA-G.R. CR­ H.C. No. 01590, which sustained accused-appellant's conviction for the crime of Statutory Rape in a Decision[2] dated January 4, 2013 by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Mambusao, Capiz, Branch 21, in Criminal Case No. 09-0886-05.
 
The Factual and Procedural Antecedents
 
In an Information filed by the Provincial Prosecutor of Capiz, accused-appellant was charged with rape as follows:
 
That sometime in the month of July 2005 in Brgy. Bungsi,...