Supreme Court decision · Criminal Law

People of the Philippine Islands v. Suarez

G. R. No. 40137 · Promulgated May 9, 1934

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This case is about the affirmation of a penal judgment involving prision correccional under Act No. 4103, with costs assessed against the appellant.

Penalty, Appeal, Court of First Instance, Summary Proceedings, Costs

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[ G. R. No. 40137, May 09, 1934 ]

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE, VS. DANIEL SUAREZ, 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 ________20th________day of ________April________, 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 ___________Batangas________, dated the __________16th__________ day of __________June____________, nineteen hundred and ___________thirty-three____________, and from which the above-entitled appeal was taken, be, and the same is hereby, affirmed in all its parts, with the costs against the appellant; although the minimum of the penalty period imposed in said judgment, under act No. 4103 is fixed at 1 year and 1 day of prision correccional. 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.