Supreme Court decision · Criminal Law

People of the Philippine Islands v. Hanapol

G. R. No. 41009 · Promulgated May 10, 1934

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This case is about the acquittal of Teofilo Hanapol by the Supreme Court, reversing a lower court's decision and remanding the case.

Appeal, Acquittal, Judgment, Remand, Reversal

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[ G. R. No. 41009, May 10, 1934 ]

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE VS. TEOFILO HANAPOL, 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 ________24th________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 ___________Leyte________, dated the __________11th__________ day of __________December____________, nineteen hundred and ___________thirty-three____________, and from which the above-entitled appeal was taken, be, and the same is hereby, reversed with the costs of this instance de oficio, and the accused is hereby acquitted of the crime with which he is charged and set at liberty forthwith.

It is further ordered that the said cause be remanded to the Court of First Instance.