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PEOPLE vs. Sy Pio 094 Phil 885

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SY PIO, alias POLICARPIO DE LA CRUZ, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-5848 | 1954-04-30

D E C I S I O N


LABRADOR, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila finding the defendant-appellant herein Sy Pio, alias Policarpio de la Cruz, guilty of frustrated murder against the person of Tan Siong Kiap, and sentencing him to suffer an indeterminate sentence of 6 years, 1 month, and 11 days of prisiá³n mayor, to 14 years, 8 months, and 1 day of reclusiá³n temporal, to indemnify the offended party Tan Siong Kiap in the sum of P350, without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, and to pay the costs. The case was appealed to the Court of Appeals, but that court certified it to this...