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US vs. Tomas Bernardo 019 Phil 265

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. TOMAS BERNARDO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 6027 | 1911-04-01

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

In November, 1907, Tomas Bernardo entered into amorous relations with Isidora Mesina, a minor 18 years of age, and on this account the said Tomas Bernardo frequented the house in which the girl lived; he succeeded in lying with her on the afternoon of March 1, 1909, through promise of marriage, while her father, Saturnino, and her sister, Juliana Mesina, were absent from the house and her mother was in another room attending her sick daughter. As a result of the said relations and of the coition that took place on the afternoon aforesaid, the girl became pregnant and later gave birth to a female child, one...