Supreme Court decision · Criminal Law

People of the Philippine Islands v. Apostol

G. R. No. 40936 · Promulgated May 31, 1934

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This case is about the affirmation and modification of a lower court's judgment in a criminal appeal, fixing the confinement period and adjudging the minimum penalty.

Reclusion Temporal, Prision Mayor, Court of First Instance, Sentence Modification, Costs

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[ G. R. No. 40936, May 31, 1934 ]

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE VS. SANTIAGO APOSTOL ET AL., SANTIAGO APOSTOL, 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 ___________Manila________, dated the __________29th__________ day of __________November____________, 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 period of confinement is fixed at 12 years and 1 day of reclusion temporal, and , under Act No. 4103, the minimum penalty of 6 years and 1 day of prision mayor is adjudged, with 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.