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PEOPLE vs. Lao Wan Sing

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LAO WAN SING alias CO TIOK alias WASING, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-49044 | 1983-10-12

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

The records disclose the following antecedents:

In an Information, dated July 10, 1957, Lao Wan Sing alias Go Tiok alias Wasing was charged with the crime of Arson in Criminal Case No. 964 of the then Court of First Instance of Aklan, Branch II, reading as follows:

"That on or about the 17th day of June, 1956, in the evening, in the poblacion of Kalibo, Province of Aklan, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously set fire to a certain building owned by Lourdes L. Motus, knowing it to be occupied...