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United States Vs. Monico Almencion 025 Phil 648

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MONICO ALMENCION, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 7026 | 1913-02-12

D E C I S I O N


ARELLANO, C.J.:

The charge in this case is that Monico Almencion substituted Fortunato Cañete's name for Lucio Cañete's on the latter's personal cedula for the year 1909, for the purpose of simulating that Fortunato Cañete had bought his cedula for that year and was qualified to obtain one for 1910 without penalty, as he did, from the municipal treasurer Mandaue Cebu. His object was to keep P2 of the P4 Fortunato Cañete had given him, thus paying into the treasury only P2 for the 1910 cedula by simulating that Fortunato had already bought one for 1909, which simulation the treasurer of Mandaue...