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US vs Mateo Bumatay

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. MATEO BUMATAY, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 1269 | 1903-11-06

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

On January 28, 1903, the provincial fiscal of Ilocos Sur filed an information charging Mateo Bumatay, municipal treasurer of the town of Salcedo, with the crime of malversation of public funds, defined and penalized in article 390 of the Penal Code. It was alleged that the defendant in October, 1902, received from one Lino de Abaya, deputy provincial treasurer, the sum of $75 and some odd cents for deposit in the municipal treasury, but that the defendant, instead of so depositing it, appropriated the money to his own use and that he failed to make any entry of the amount in the proper account book of the...