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United States Vs. Filomeno Apurado

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FILOMENO APURADO, ET AL., defendant-appellants.

G.R. No. L-1210 | 1907-02-07

D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J.:

The appellants in this case were convicted of the crime of sedition as defined in section 5 of Act No. 292 of the Philippine Commission, and each and all of them sentenced to six months of imprisonment, to pay a fine of 200 dollars, to subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, and to pay the costs of the trial.

The record discloses that some little time before the municipal council of San Carlos, Occidental Negros, entered upon one of its regular morning sessions, some 500 residents of the municipality assembled near the municipal building, and upon the opening of the session a large number of this...