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United States Vs. Simeon Ca?ete 038 Phil 253

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SIMEON CA?ETE, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 11612 | 1918-06-21

D E C I S I O N


FISHER, J .:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of the Province of Leyte, whereby the appellants were found guilty of the crime of libel.

Two informations were filed in the trial court charging the fifty persons named in each information with the crime of libel. In the information in case No. 4138 of the trial court, the publication complained of is averred to be a libel upon the Rev. Nicanor Acebedo, and in case No. 4139, it is charged that the same publication is a libel upon one Timotea Camposano. By stipulation the two cases were consolidated and tried together in the court below. The...