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United States Vs. Pons 34 Phil 729

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JUAN PONS, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 11530 | 1916-08-12

D E C I S I O N


TRENT, J.:

The information in this case reads:

"The undersigned charges Gabino Beliso, Juan Pons, and Jacinto Lasarte with the crime of illegal importation of opium, committed as follows:

"That on or about the 10th day of April, 1915, the said accused, conspiring together and plotting among themselves, did, knowingly, willfully, unlawfully, feloniously and fraudulently, bring from a foreign country, to wit, that of Spain, on board the steamer Lopez y Lopez, and import and introduce into the city of Manila, Philippine Islands, and within the jurisdiction of the court, 520 tins containing 125 kilograms of opium of the value of...