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PEOPLE vs. Co Hap, Et Al. 091 Phil 89

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CO HAP and TAN LAM, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-4271 | 1952-03-31

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.:

Co Hap and Tan Lam were charged in the Court of First Instance of Manila with a violation of Executive Order No. 331, Series of 1950, in connection with Republic Act No. 509, for selling evaporated milk to the public at a price higher than the maximum fixed in said executive order, and on a plea of guilty freely and spontaneously made they were sentenced each to pay a fine of P5,000, with subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, and the costs, and to be barred from engaging in the wholesale and retail business in the Philippines for a period of five years, with a recommendation that they be immediately...