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PEOPLE vs. de Leon

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellant, vs. MIGUEL PONCE DE LEON Y BALLESTEROS, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 34228 | 1931-12-31

D E C I S I O N


IMPERIAL, J:

This is an appeal taken by the Government, represented by the Attorney-General, from the judgment rendered by the Court of First Instance of the City of Manila, dismissing the information filed against the accused Miguel Ponce de Leon y Ballesteros, for the violation of a conditional pardon.

On March 13, 1923 the appellee was found guilty of parricide by the Court of First Instance of Manila, and sentenced to three years of banishment from within a radius of 25 kilometers from the Roman Catholic Church in Santa Ana. On February 16, 1924 His Excellency the Governor-General pardoned him on condition that he...