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PEOPLE vs. Macbul

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MORO MACBUL, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 48976 | 1943-10-11

D E C I S I O N

OZAETA, J:

Appellant pleaded guilty to an information for theft of two sacks of papers valued at P10 belonging to the Provincial Government of Sulu, alleged to have been committed on March 9, 1943, in the municipality of Jolo; it being also alleged that he was a habitual delinquent, having been twice convicted of the same crime on November 14, 1928, and August 20, 1942. The trial court sentenced him to suffer one month and one day of arresto mayor as principal penalty and two years, four months, and one day of prision correccional as additional penalty for habitual delinquency.

The trial court found two mitigating...