Supreme Court decision · Criminal Law

People of the Philippine Islands v. Academia

G. R. No. 39464 · Promulgated May 25, 1934

In brief

This case is about the affirmation of the penalty imposed on Miguel Academia, with a reduction in sentence and remand to the Court of First Instance for enforcement.

Prision Correccional, Sentence Reduction, Appeal, Court of First Instance, Costs

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[ G. R. No. 39464, May 25, 1934 ]

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE, VS. MIGUEL ACADEMIA, 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 ________9th________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 ___________Oriental Negros________, dated the __________17th__________ day of __________March____________, nineteen hundred and ___________thirty-three____________, and from which the above-entitled appeal was taken, be, and the same is hereby, affirmed with the modification that the penalty imposed upon the appellant is reduced to two years and four months of prision correccional. Under Act 4103 the minimum sentence of six months is prescribed, with cost 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.