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Benito Legarda y Tuazon vs Vicente Garcia Valdez

BENITO LEGARDA Y TUASON, complainant-appellant, vs. VICENTE GARCIA VALDEZ, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 513 | 1902-12-19

D E C I S I O N


MAPA, J:

The appellant filed a criminal complaint against the defendant for the crime of libel (injurias graves), defined and punished by article 458 of the Penal Code, alleging that in issue No. 16, dated September 15, 1901, of the weekly paper called "Miau," published in this city and of which the defendant was the editor, an article was published under the heading "D. Benito Legarda y Tuason," and to which reference was made by the complaint, it not being reproduced verbatim on account of its great length; that in said article certain defamatory statements are made, tending to discredit the complainant and to bring...