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United States Vs. Vicente Padilla, Et Al.

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. VICENTE PADILLA ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 1883 | 1905-05-01

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

The defendants were tried in the court below under a complaint for brigandage and were convicted of robbery with homicide. Padilla and Pablo Gallano were sentenced to life imprisonment (cadena perpetua), Benedicto Gallano to twelve years and one day, and Paulino Gacillos to six years ten months and one day of prision mayor.

We think that there is evidence in the case sufficient to convict the defendants of the crime of brigandage and that the conviction for robbery with homicide should be set aside. As the minimum penalty for brigandage is twenty years, the defendants Benedicto Gallano and Paulino Gacillos...