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PEOPLE vs. Meneses

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LUIS MENESES, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 48446 | 1943-02-26

D E C I S I O N


OZAETA, J:

The question involved in this appeal is whether a competent court, while acquitting an accused, may permit itself nevertheless to criticize or reprehend his acts and conduct in connection with the transaction out of which the accusation arose. That question arises out of the following facts:

Appellant was charged with malversation of public funds, it being alleged in substance that as executive officer and secretary of the Pension and Investment Board he received from Mrs. Elaine Childs Elser thru the San Juan Heights Co., Inc., the total sum of P1,693.94 in payment of certain obligation of Mrs. Elser and her...