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United States Vs. Teodoro Juanillo 023 Phil 212

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. TEODORO JUANILLO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 7255 | 1912-10-03

D E C I S I O N


TRENT, J.:

This is an appeal by Teodoro Juanillo from a sentence imposed by the Honorable J. S. Powell, judge of the Court of First Instance at Iloilo, condemning him to one year and one day of presidio correccional, to the payment of P1,000 to the heirs of the deceased, Ponciano Leal, to the corresponding subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, and to the payment of the costs of the cause, for the crime of negligent homicide (imprudencia temeraria con homicidio).

It is admitted that Ponciano Leal was killed on the public highway while going from the town of Pavia to Santa Barbara, Province of Iloilo, at about 4...