People v.

Temporada
G.R. No. 173473
Justice Ynares-Santiago
17 December 2008

FACTS:
Rosemarie Robles, Bernadette Miranda, Nenita Catacotan and Jojo Resco and
appellant Beth Temporada, all employees of the Alternative Travel and Tours
Corporation (ATTC), recruited and promised overseas employment, for a fee, to
complainants Rogelio Legaspi, Jr., Soledad Atle, Luz Minkay, Evelyn Estacio and
Dennis Dimaano. After the complainants has submitted all of their requirements and
paid required fees. None of them was able to leave the country for work as promised by
ATTC. They were also unable to recover the amounts they had paid, thus, they lodged
a separate criminal complaints against the employees of ATTC before the City
Prosecutor of Manila. 6 informations were filed, one for Illegal Recruitment in a Large
Scale and the rest for five counts of estafa. Only Beth Temporada was apprehended
and brought to trial, the other accused remained at large. The Regional Trial Court
found Temporada guilty beyond reasonable doubt for the crimes charged. The Court of
Appeals affirmed the decision of the trial court with modifications on the effect that in
Criminal Cases Nos. 02-208373, 02-208375, & 02- 208376, Temporada is sentenced to
suffer the indeterminate penalty of six (6) years of prision correccional maximum, as
minimum, to ten (10) years and one (1) day of prision mayor maximum, as maximum;
and in Criminal Case No. 02-208374, she is sentenced to suffer the indeterminate
penalty of eight (8) years and one (1) day of prision mayor medium, as minimum, to
twelve (12) years and one (1) day of reclusion temporal minimum, as maximum.

ISSUES:
Whether or the indeterminate sentence law was correctly applied?

RULING: