Convicting the accused in the following cases of estafas, namely Crim. Cases Nos. 92-111350,
92-111351, 92-111352, 92-111355, 92-111357, 92-111358, 92-111363 and imposing the
following penalties, to wit:
In Crim. Case No. 92-111350 an indeterminate penalty of 6 months and 1 day of prision
correccional as minimum to 5 years 5 months and 11 days of prision correccional as maximum
and to indemnify the offended party Vicente Reas the sum of P15,000.00.
In Crim. Case No. 92-111351 an indeterminate penalty of 6 months and One (1) day of prision
correccional as minimum to 5 years, 5 months and 11 days of prision correccional as maximum
and to indemnify the offended party Edward Calaranan the sum of P26,000.00.
In Crim. Case No. 92-111352 an indeterminate penalty of 6 months and One (1) day of prision
correccional as minimum to 10 years of prision mayor as maximum and to indemnify the
offended party Rolando Mendoza the sum of P50,000.00.
In Crim. Case No. 92-111355 an indeterminate penalty of 5 months and 1 day of prision
correccional as minimum to 8 years of prision mayor as maximum and to indemnify the
offended party Ferdinand Aviso in the sum of P30,000.00.
In Crim. Case No. 92-111357 an indeterminate penalty of 6 months and 1 day of prision
correccional as minimum to 9 years of prision mayor as maximum and to indemnify the
offended party Caruso Astibe in the sum of P37,000.00.
In Crim. Case No. 92-111358 an indeterminate penalty of 6 months and 1 day of prision
correccional as minimum to 5 years, 5 months and 11 days of prision correccional and to
indemnify the offended party Jose Naval P20,000.00.
In Crim. Case No. 92-111363 an indeterminate penalty of 4 months 1 day of aresto mayor as
minimum to 1 year 1 day of prision correccional as maximum and to indemnify the offended
party Fernando Roque in the sum of P5,000.00.
The accused having been under detention since October 1992, up to the present, her detention
shall be credited in the service of her sentence with four-fifths (4/5) of the time during which she
has undergone preventive imprisonment.
And for the accused to pay the cost in all these cases of conviction.
SO ORDERED.i[1]
The accused filed an appeal to this Court but solely from the decisionii[2] of the trial court in
Criminal Case No. 92-111348 which had declared her guilty beyond reasonable doubt of Illegal
Recruitment in Large Scale and where life imprisonment had been imposed on her. The
information against her in Criminal Case No. 92-111348, particularly, averred: