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United States Vs. Federico Ortiz, Et Al.

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FEDERICO ORTIZ, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-2704 | 1906-12-06

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

Upon a written complaint dated the 15th of March, 1904, signed by M. Fernandez Yanson and filed in the justice's court of Iloilo, the provincial fiscal of the said city, on May 10, 1904, filed a written information (1) accusing Federico Ortiz, Francisco Benavent, Jose Gonzalez Paramos, Juan Llorente, and Anastasio Montes of the crime of libel, as on February 6, 1904, the accused who, respectively, were then and there director, manager, writer, editor, and proprietor of a newspaper known under the name of "Revista Catolica, a weekly organ of the Centro Catolica," did willfully, unlawfully, and with malicious...