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PEOPLE vs. Gregoria Bingaan 048 Phil 925

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GREGORIA BINGAAN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 24937 | 1926-03-20

D E C I S I O N


JOHNS, J.:

In analyzing the evidence, the Attorney-General says:

"It is an undisputed fact that the accused killed her husband Gaspar Balbuena. It has been established also, in our opinion, that there was an unlawful aggression on the part of the deceased. The only witness of the occurrence was the accused, and her uncontradicted testimony on this point is so cogent and reasonable that it has to be accepted. No sufficient motive for the accused to kill her husband has been proved. The more or less strained relations existing between them, due to the jealousy of the husband, could not, we believe, have induced her to...