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United States Vs. Pedro A. Reyes

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PEDRO A. REYES, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 5141 | 1910-01-10

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

Shortly after 9 o'clock of the morning of Monday, the 27th of April, 1908, Panfilo Espinosa, deputy provincial treasurer of Pampanga, appeared at the municipal treasury of Guagua for the purpose of counting the cash in the safe in charge of Pedro A. Reyes, the municipal treasurer, and examining the accounts of the said treasury. Reyes was at his office, but alleging that he had forgotten his keys he asked for a few minutes in order to get them; his absence, however, lasted about forty minutes and as soon as he returned the inspector ordered him to open the safe and place all the money contained in it on the...