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PEOPLE vs. Vicente O. Del Rosario And Natalio B. Bacalso 086 Phil 163

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. VICENTE O. DEL ROSARIO and NATALIO B. BACALSO, defendants and, appellees.

G.R. No. L-2254 | 1950-04-20

D E C I S I O N


TUASON, J.:

The question for decision is whether a libelous publication affecting more than one person constitutes one crime or more. This is an appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of Cebu sustaining the first theory and dismissing a complaint for libel on a motion to quash.

The alleged defamatory writing was printed in one sheet of paper in Visaya, which was translated in the complaint into English as follows:.

"MY PLEA TO THE CEBUANOS.

"Because Morelos, as head of the PRRA wanted to sell flour outside of Cebu preferring that the Chinese could make money, notwithstanding that the inhabitants of the...