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Trinidad H. Padro De Tavera vs Vicente Garcia Valdez

TRINIDAD H. PADRO DE TAVERA, complainant-appellee, vs. VICENTE GARCIA VALDEZ, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 922 | 1902-11-08

D E C I S I O N


LADD, J.:

Both the private prosecutor and the defendant have appealed from the judgment of the court below, finding the defendant guilty of the offense of injurias graves under articles 457 and 458 of the Penal Code, and sentencing him to pay a fine of 4,000 pesetas, with subsidiary imprisonment and costs.

(1) No brief has been filed by the defendant, nor did he appear, either personally or by counsel, on the day fixed for the argument, and under the rules of this court the motion that his appeal be dismissed for lack of prosecution might be granted, but we have nevertheless deemed it proper to consider the whole case...