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United States Vs. Irineo A. San Jose

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. IRINEO A. SAN JOSE, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 4980 | 1910-01-10

D E C I S I O N


ARELLANO, C.J.:

On the 6th of December, 1903, Irineo San Jose contracted canonical marriage in Manila with Lorenza de los Santos, and on January 1, 1908, while Lorenza Santos was and is still living, he contracted a civil marriage in Tayabas with Paz Buenaventura. These facts have been established even by the testimony of the accused himself.

The whole defense rests in that the accused was married the second time under the belief that his first wife, Lorenza Santos, had died in 1905, while he was in Hongkong.

The Court of First Instance of Tayabas, in which the defendant was tried, sentenced him to eight years and one...