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US vs Pedro Maa?o, Et Al.

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. PEDRO MAA?O, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 1236 | 1903-11-30

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

Juan Bermudez and his wife Francisca fully identified the defendants at the trial as two of the persons who entered their house on the night in question. The defendants say in their brief that both of these witnesses testified, at the preliminary investigation, that they did not know who their assailants were. This statement, so far as the husband is concerned, is not borne out by the record. There is nothing therein to show that he did not, upon the question of identity, testify before the justice in the same way that he did in the Court of First Instance. His wife explains her testimony before the justice...