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Villareal vs. PEOPLE

BONIFACIO VILLAREAL, petitioner, vs. THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent.

G.R. No. L-1514 | 1949-08-05

D E C I S I O N

TUASON, J p:

This is an appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeals. The decision affirmed, with slight modification as to the penalty, a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Batangas finding the defendant, petitioner herein, guilty of a violation of article 341 of the Revised Penal Code (White Slavery Trade), and sentencing him to an indeterminate penalty of from 1 year and 1 day to 3 years, 6 months and 20 days of prision correccional with the accessory penalties provided by law, and to pay the costs.

The ground of complaint is that the Court of Appeals unjustifiably sanctioned "the actuations of the Court of...