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United States Vs. Filomeno Estapia Et Al. 037 Phil 17

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FILOMENO ESTAPIA ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-12891 | 1917-10-19

D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J.:

The defendants took part, either as principals or as spectators, in an ihaway, the local name for a kind of cockfight in which it is agreed that the losing cock is to be divided between the owners of the two birds engaged in the fight. The owners, with a few of their friends, were seen carrying the gamecocks to grove of buri palms near a recently constructed house; and were surprised by the police, soon afterwards, standing, with 8 to 10 onlookers, in a ring around the spot beneath a buri palm where the fight had just taken place. There is nothing in the record which even tends to indicate that the grove of...