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US vs Freeland Mccray

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. FREELAND McCRAY, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 1166 | 1903-09-29

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

On December 18, 1902, an information was filed by the provincial fiscal in the Court of First Instance of Batangas, charging Freeland McCray with the crime of homicide, in that, at about 10 o'clock at night on the 17th of December, 1902, in the course of a quarrel with one John King in the house of a man named Harvey, located in the town of Batangas, capital of the province of the same name, he fired several shots at King with a revolver, inflicting upon him three wounds, two of which were mortal, causing his death within a few minutes.

The testimony of the Army physician who held the autopsy on the body is...