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People vs. Benito

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MIGUEL BENITO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 36979 | 1932-11-23

D E C I S I O N


VICKERS, J:

This is an appeal from a decision of Judge Benito Natividad of the Court of First Instance of Davao, finding the defendant guilty of the crime of estafa through the falsification of commercial documents and sentencing him to suffer five years, four months, and twenty-one days of prision correccional and the accessory penalties provided the law, to pay a fine of 8,000 pesetas, and to indemnify the International Harvester Company of the Philippines in the sum of P15,000.01, or suffer the corresponding subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, and to pay the costs.

The appellant makes the following...