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PEOPLE vs. Pelagio Mostasesa And Paulino Dumagat 094 Phil 243

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff, ANTONIO ESPADA, offended-party-appellee, vs. PELAGIO MOSTASESA and PAULINO DUMAGAT, accused and appellants.

G.R. No. L-5684 | 1954-01-22

D E C I S I O N


LABRADOR, J.:

In the above entitled criminal case, accused-appellants were found guilty of the crime of coercion and were sentenced by the Court of Appeals, as follows:

". . . the penalty is increased to 4 months and 1 day of arresto mayor, and that appellant should also be sentenced either to return the articles in question to the complainant or to indemnify him in the sum of P632, with subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, . . ."

When the case was returned to the Court of First Instance for the execution of the above sentence, said court issued an order of execution for P600, the value of two bales of...