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US vs Isidoro Pascual, Et Al.

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. ISIDORO PASCUAL ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 1231 | 1903-08-29

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

Upon the evidence in the case, the defendants can be convicted of the crime of brigandage only by taking into consideration certain confessions made by them to officers and soldiers of the Constabulary.

Act No. 619, section 1, provides as follows:

"SEC. 4.----No confession of any person charged with crime shall be received as evidence against him by any court of justice unless it be first shown to the satisfaction of the court that it was freely and voluntarily made and not the result of violence, intimidation, threat, menace, or of promises or offers of reward or leniency."

There was no showing made in...