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ited States Vs. El Chino Cuna

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. EL CHINO CUNA (alias SY CONCO), defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 4504 | 1908-12-15

D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J.:

On the 12th of August, 1907, the provincial fiscal filed in the Court of First Instance of the Province of Isabela, an information charging the defendant Chinaman Cuna (alias Sy Conco), with a violation of section 5 of Act No. 1461 of the Philippine Commission, committed as follows:

"That the said Chinaman Cuna (alias Sy Conco), on or about the 30th day of June, 1907, in the municipality of Echague, in the Province of Isabela, in the Philippine Islands, sold for ten cents, Philippine currency, a small quantity of opium, to Apolinaria Gumpal, a Filipino woman, who was neither a doctor, pharmacist, vender of...