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PEOPLE vs. Malabanan

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FILEMON D. MALABANAN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 43430 | 1936-01-07

D E C I S I O N


HULL, J:

Appellant was convicted in the Court of First Instance of Batangas of a violation of article 208 of the Revised Penal Code.

In July, 1933, appellant was municipal president of the municipality of San Juan, Province of Batangas, and was engaged in raising funds for the construction of a ward in the provincial hospital, for tubercular patients. Notwithstanding all his efforts to secure contributions, he was unable to approximate the quota which had been set for his town by the provincial authorities, and he therefore on July 22 and July 29, organized and held cock-fights, neither day being authorized by law for...