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Pedro Julia vs Vicente Sotto

PEDRO JULIA, complainant-appellee, vs. VICENTE SOTTO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 1044 | 1903-05-15

D E C I S I O N


MAPA, J.:

The accused is charged with the offense of libel, committed, according to the complaint, by means of a publication on the 12th of September, 1901, in issue No. 209 of "El Pueblo," a newspaper edited and published in the city of Cebu, and of which the defendant was editor and proprietor, of an article entitled "Miracles of Father Julia; the bitter truth," in which article are contained libelous phrases tending to dishonor and discredit the complaining witness and to bring him into contempt. In the complaint those parts of the article which are necessary for the purposes of the accusation are copied literally,...