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People of the Phil. vs. Valdez

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SILVINO VALDEZ, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 37754 | 1933-03-04

D E C I S I O N

BUTTE, J:

This is an appeal from the Court of First Instance of Nueva Vizcaya, second judicial district, convicting the appellant of the crime of homicide and sentencing him to fourteen years, eight months and one day of reclusion temporal and to indemnify the heirs of the deceased Egmidio Pangilinan in the sum of P1,000. It was the theory of the defense that Egmidio died from self - inflicted wounds, and the failure of the trial court so to find is assigned as error. In view of the evidence submitted by the prosecution, which we regard as trustworthy, this theory appears to us to have been manufactured for the occasion...