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United States Vs. Emilio Bedoya

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EMILIO BEDOYA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 5100 | 1909-11-03

D E C I S I O N


ARELLANO, C.J.:

The accused in this case is charged with the crime of estafa, in that on the 18th of May, 1908, he received on commission from The Schweiger Import and Export Company, various articles to the value of P1,312.40, to be accounted for within thirty days, at the expiration of which time he neither returned nor paid for them, keeping said goods himself.

As indirect evidence, in order to show the methods employed by the accused, and of which the company became aware after it had entrusted him with goods to the above amount, the prosecution introduced the testimony of two commercial firms.

One of these is...