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United States Vs. Lope Dedicatoria

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. LOPE DEDICATORIA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 1942 | 1905-02-01

D E C I S I O N


MAPA, J.:

It is a fact fully proven in this case that the defendant pretended falsely to be an attorney at law and that his name was Jose Batallones, in order to appear as a member of a family of this name with whom the priest Don Juan de la Rosa had an intimate friendship; that by means of these false pretenses defendant succeeded in living for some days in said priest's house and gaining his confidence; later on, as a result of that confidence thus gained by deceitful means, defendant succeeded in getting the priest to loan him on several occasions various sums of money, which he failed to repay; he also induced the...