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United States Vs. Guillermo Romulo

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GUILLERMO ROMULO ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 5502 | 1910-03-07

D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J.:

In the Court of First Instance of the Province of La Laguna, Guillermo Romulo, Celerino de la Cruz, Buenaventura Canape, and Fidel Veloz, were charged with the crime of assassination in an information couched in the following terms:
"That the said accused, on the 16th day of April, 1909, in the municipality of Majayjay, Province of La Laguna, P. I., voluntarily, unlawfully, feloniously, with treachery, premeditation, vindictiveness, and nocturnity, murdered Mr. Adrian Herren, a surveyor of the Bureau of Public Lands, inflicting upon him several blows with a cutting instrument, causing numerous wounds on his...