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People vs. Lopez 44 OG 584

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. CORNELIO LOPEZ, defendant and appellant

No. 1141-R | 1947-08-31

APPEAL from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Iloilo. Imperial Reyes J.
 
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
 
FELIX, J.:
 
At about 2:30 in the afternoon of March 3, 1946, a girl named Dignidad Prescincula, 14 years old, alighted from a passengers truck designated as “Bañes No. 1” that had just stopped on the left side of the street in front of the public market of Banate, in the Province of Iloilo, and she was crossing the street to get shelter in said market for it was then raining torrentially, when passengers’ truck called “Solinap,” driven by defendant Cornelio...