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People vs. Adillo

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. ELIAS ADILLO, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-23785 | 1975-11-27

D E C I S I O N

MARTIN, J:

The decisive question presented to Us in this direct appeal from the dismissal judgment of the Court of First Instance of Laguna in its Criminal Case SC-663 is whether or not the penal liability of a share-tenant for pre-reaping or pre-threshing under the Agricultural Tenancy Act (Republic Act No. 1199, enacted on August 30, 1954) has been obliterated by the Agricultural Land Reform Code (Republic Act No. 3844, enacted on August 8, 1963) and the subsequent agrarian laws.

The defendant-appellee Elias Adillo was a share-tenant of one Saturnino L. Rebong on a parcel of riceland situated at Victoria, Laguna. On...