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US vs. Arsenio De Guzman, Et Al. 019 Phil 350

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARSENIO DE GUZMAN AND OTHERS, defendants, LEOCADIO CRISOSTOMO, MAXIMO REYES, SEGUNDO CAPUCHINO, MAXIMO TAYTAY, BERNARDINO MARTINEZ, VENANCIO MARASIGAN, BONIFACIO GRANADO, MACARIO CORALI, ZACARIAS PATIAN and CRISOSTOMO AME, appellants.

G.R. No. 5474 | 1911-07-15

D E C I S I O N


MORELAND, J.:

The scene of the crime which gives rise to this action is laid among the sugar plantations of the Province of La Laguna. Three of these plantations belonged, at the time this crime was committed, to Dr. David Zavalla, Pedro Perlas, and Pablo Manguerra, respectively. The three haciendas mentioned join each other and are situated about one and one-half hour's carromata ride from the village of Santa Rosa. At the time of the commission of the crime there were employed on the hacienda of Doctor Zavalla about 20 men, both aparceros and laborers, under the direction of one Leon Alinsod. At that time Sr. Perlas...