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United States Vs. Joaquin Gil

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOAQUIN GIL, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 4704 | 1909-04-26

D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J.:

The information filed in this case charges the accused, Joaquin Gil, with the crime of assassination, in that on the 27th day of December, 1907, in the city of Iloilo, he entered the office of Benito Lopez, governor of the Providence of Iloilo, and then and there treacherously (con alevosia) and with deliberate premeditation fired four shots from a loaded revolver at the said Governor Benito Lopez, who was at the time engaged in the execution of the duties of his office as governor, and inflicted upon him four wounds from the effects of one or all of which he died on the 20th day of January, 1908.

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