Supreme Court decision · Criminal Law
People of the Philippine Islands v. Espiritu
G. R. No. 39485 · Promulgated May 25, 1934
In brief
This case is about the affirmation of a penalty sentence of arresto mayor to prision correccional for the defendants with costs imposed.
Arresto Mayor, Prision Correccional, Costs, Affirmation, Remand
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Full text
[ G. R. No. 39485, May 25, 1934 ]
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE, VS. SEGUNDO ESPIRITU ETAL., DEFENDANTS, SEGUNDINO ESPIRITU AND CORNELIO INOCENTES, DEFENDANTS AND APPELLANTS.
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 ________10th________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 ___________Cavite________, dated the __________20th__________ day of __________March____________, nineteen hundred and ___________thirty-three____________, and from which the above-entitled appeal was taken, be, and the same is hereby, affirmed and each of the defendants-appellants is sentenced to a penalty of from six (6) months of arresto mayor to one (1) year and one (1) day of prision correccional, with the accessories of law, and to pay one-half of the costs in the instance. The costs in this instance 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.