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The United States Vs. Chinos Vicente Delgado, Et Al. 041 Phil 372

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. Chinos VICENTE DELGADO, ET AL., defendants. Chino VICENTE DELGADO and Chino MARIANO SEVILLA, appellants.

G.R. No. 16416 | 1921-02-08

D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J .:

Counsel for the defendants and appellants in this case begin their brief with the following rather startling sentence: "There has been something mysterious about the whole history of this case." The mystery suggested concerns the delay in the trial; for while the unlawful occurrence took place on October 11, 1914, and while the original information was filed on February 5, 1915, it was not until six years later that the case reached this court. Such intolerable delay in the presentation and decision of criminal cases must be severely condemned. Justice delayed is indeed nearly equivalent to justice denied....