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PEOPLE vs. Bonkia

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SIA BONKIA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 40173 | 1934-04-02

D E C I S I O N


DIAZ, J:

In or about the month of December, 1932, the herein appellant named Sia Bonkia or Sia Boon Kee was charged with murder in the Court of First Instance of Oriental Misamis, but after due trial he was found guilty only of homicide, nor murder, and consequently sentenced to twelve years and one day of reclusion temporal with the corresponding accessory penalties, the mitigating circumstance of lack of intention to cause so grave a wrong as that committed having been taken into consideration in his favor, and to indemnify the heirs of the deceased Ang Wan, alias Diana, in the sum of P1,000, with the costs of the...