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US vs Marcosa Penalosa, et al

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. MARCOSA PENALOSA and ENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 424 | 1902-01-27

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

Article 475 of the prevailing Penal Code provides as follows:
"Any minor who shall contract marriage without the consent of his or her parents or of the persons who for such purpose stand in their stead shall be punished with prision correccional in its minimum and medium degrees."
The accused were convicted in the lower court for the violation of this article, it appearing from the evidence adduced that the accused, Marcosa Peñalosa, was not 21 years of age on the 3d day of May, 1901, when she married the codefendant, and that she contracted the marriage without the consent of her father.

Should the judgment...