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PEOPLE vs. Epimaco Tabunares 092 Phil 801

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EPIMACO TABUNARES, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-4710 | 1953-03-19

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, C.J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Samar, finding the defendant appellant, Epimaco Tabunares, guilty of illegal possession of a firearm, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment ranging from 5 years to 8 years and 4 months, and to pay the costs.

The following findings of the trial court form the basis of appellant's conviction: "The accused returned to Basey in the year 1949 after his discharge from the Philippine Scouts where he served for three years as an enlisted man. Three months before the incident, he transferred to live from the house of his father...