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US vs. Pedro Tacon, Et Al. 019 Phil 447

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PEDRO TACON, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 5960 | 1911-08-07

D E C I S I O N


ARELLANO, C.J.:

While Roberto Baun was living with his niece, Dolores Cabalu, a girl of about 10 years of age, in the barrio of Balincanauay of the municipality of Tarlac, Province of Tarlac, and while he was asleep and sick, on the 12th of May, 1909, at about half past 8 or 9 o'clock at night, two men dressed in black entered his house and, without saying a word or performing any other act, such as searching the house or penetrating therein further than the place where Baun was sleeping, slashed the latter and afterwards precipitately took to flight. Some of the children, and the tenants of Baun who lived in the...