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PEOPLE Vs. Wong Hsio Fong 041 Phil 402

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. WONG HSIO FONG, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 16777 | 1921-02-18

D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J .:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila finding the defendant and appellant Wong Hsiao Fong, lieutenant-commander of the Chinese Navy, guilty of the illegal importation of 14 kilos of opium, in violation of section 4 of the Opium Law, and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of two years' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of P4,000, with subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, and to pay the costs.

On June 25, 1920, Wong Hsiao Fong, an officer in the Chinese Navy, arrived in Manila from Shanghai, China, on the steamship Empress of Russia, in charge of four Chinese...