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United States vs. Ah Chong

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. AH CHONG, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 5272 | 1910-03-19

D E C I S I O N

CARSON, J.:

The evidence as to many of the essential and vital facts in this case is limited to the testimony of the accused himself, because from the very nature of these facts and from the circumstances surrounding the incident upon which these proceedings rest, no other evidence as to these facts was available either to the prosecution or to the defense. We think however, that, giving the accused the benefit of the doubt as to the weight of the evidence touching those details of the incident as to which there can be said to be any doubt, the following statement of the material facts disclosed by the record may be taken to...