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United States Vs. Bernardo Usis, Et Al.

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. BERNARDO USIS ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 1493 | 1904-02-25

D E C I S I O N


COOPER, J.:

Bernardo Usis, Marcelino Mangubat, Aquilino Cantada, Luis Taganas, and Mateo Ronquillo are charged with th e offense of bandolerismo and were convicted in the Court of First Instance of Cavite on the 28th day of August, 1903, as forming a party of bandits defined in Act No. 518 of the Civil Commission, and were condemned to the penalty of twenty years' imprisonment and to pay the costs of proceedings. The defendants have appealed to this court.

From the testimony it appears that in the month of May, 1903, in the barrio of Iba, Silang, in the Province of Cavite, the accused were arrested by a body of Insular...