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United States Vs. Catalino De La Cruz, Et Al.

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CATALINO DE LA CRUZ AND JOAQUIN DE LA CRUZ, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-3620 | 1907-03-25

D E C I S I O N


TRACEY, J.:

Catalino de la Cruz and Joaquin de la Cruz, in the Court of First Instance of Bulacan, were adjudged guilty of the crime of frustrated abduction.

With eight companions they went first to one of two contiguous houses in the barrio of Santol in Malolos and tied up some men whom they found therein; they then proceeded to the adjoining house where they called out that all the men there must come down, as they were police agents. The woman above answering that the men were absent from the house, Catalino de la Cruz, with one companion, went up and meeting Eulalia de los Santos, forcibly dragged her downstairs and...