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2004-03-30 |
YNARES-SATIAGO, J. |
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| The general rule is that a defective information cannot support a judgment of conviction unless the defect was cured by evidence during the trial and no objection appears to have been raised.[12] It should be remembered that bigamy can be successfully prosecuted provided all its elements concur two of which are a previous marriage and a subsequent marriage which possesses all the requisites for validity.[13] All of these have been sufficiently established by the prosecution during the trial. Notably, petitioner failed to object to the alleged defect in the Information during the trial and only raised the same for the first time on appeal before the Court of Appeals. | |||||
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2001-04-03 |
BELLOSILLO, J. |
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| But that is futile. It cannot help to exonerate him. Our analysis is that he must have felt secure in the belief that he had sufficiently instilled fear in her mind that in the span of three (3) years or from the time the first rape incident occurred up to the time she left for Pampanga his sexual abuses were kept under wraps. For, it is not uncommon for a girl of tender age to be intimidated or cowed into silence by the slightest threat to her life.[23] | |||||