Supreme Court decision · Criminal Law
People of the Philippine Islands v. Abaya
G. R. No. 38752 · Promulgated May 31, 1934
In brief
This case is about the affirmation with modification of the sentence imposed on Adolfo Abaya by the Court of First Instance, including an additional penalty and costs.
Sentence Affirmed, Additional Penalty, Costs, Court of First Instance, Remand
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Full text
[ G. R. No. 38752, May 31, 1934 ]
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE VS. ADOLFO ABAYA, DEFENDANT AND APPELLANT.
D E C I S I O N
J. STEVENS-ACTING CLERK OF COURT
This court having regularly acquired jurisdiction for the trial of the above-entitled cause submitted by both parties for decision,after consideration thereof by the Court upon the record, its decision and order for the judgment having been filed on the ________14th________day of ________May________, A. D. nineteen hundred and _________thirty-four________;
By virtue thereof it is hereby adjudged and decreed that the order of the Court of the First Instance of ___________Negros Occidental ________, dated the __________5th__________ day of _________September____________, nineteen hundred and ___________thirty-two____________, and from which the above-entitled appeal was taken, be, and the same is hereby , affirmed with the sole modification that the defendant-appellant Adolfo Abaya is sentenced to an additional penalty of 16 years, with the costs against the appellant. The costs amount to P24.00 for the collection of which the trial Judge shall proceed by summary proceedings.
It is further ordered that the said cause be remanded to the Court of First Instance.