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United States Vs. Miguel Estrada 024 Phil 401

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MIGUEL ESTRADA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 8091 | 1913-03-06

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM :

This is a prosecution for frustrated rape. The court found the accused guilty of attempted rape committed without either aggravating or extenuating circumstances and sentenced him to two years four months and one day of prision correccional with the accessories provided by law and the payment of the costs.

The evidence of the prosecution establishes that on Sunday, the 28th of August, 1910, Teodorica Jarantilla, a young girl 14 years of age, was in company with her mother at their tienda in a cockpit in the municipality of Bay, Province of Laguna, where she ahd been during the forenoon; that between the...