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People vs. Nabong

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. IGNACIO NABONG, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 36426 | 1932-11-03

D E C I S I O N


STREET, J:

This appeal has been brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of First Instance of the Province of Nueva Ecija, finding the appellant, Ignacio Nabong, guilty of the offense of sedition under section 8 of Act No. 292, as amended by Act No. 1692, and sentencing him to pay a fine of two hundred pesos, with subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, and requiring him to pay the costs.

The appellant is an attorney engaged in the practice of law at Cabanatuan, in the Province of Nueva Ecija; and shortly before the incident with which we are here concerned, he had been retained to defend one Juan Feleo against...