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ited States Vs. Santiago Montecillo

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SANTIAGO MONTECILLO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 4317 | 1908-08-18

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

On the morning of the 21st or 27th of January, 1904, the eve of the fiesta of the patron saint of the pueblo of Sogod, a town annexed to that of Catmon, in the Island of Cebu, several members of the local police and volunteers of said municipality, by order of the municipal president, Santiago Montecillo, went toward the mountain that stands in the sitio of Tagaytay within the said territory, in order to capture a well-known pulajan bandit named Claudio Monsanto, who, according to reports received by the president, was that morning on the said mountain. As a matter of fact he was then and there found and,...