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PEOPLE vs. Abelo Aragon 094 Phil 357

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ABELO ARAGON, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-5930 | 1954-02-17

D E C I S I O N


LABRADOR, J.:

The defendant in the above-entitled case is charged in the Court of First Instance of Cebu with the crime of bigamy, for having contracted a second marriage with one Efigenia C. Palomer on September 21, 1947, while his previous valid marriage with Martina Godinez was still subsisting and had not been dissolved. The information is dated May 22, 1951. On October 11, 1951, while the case was pending trial, Efigenia C. Palomer filed a civil action in the same Court of First Instance of Cebu against the defendant-appellant, alleging that the latter "by means of force, threats and intimidation of bodily harm,...