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United States Vs. Vicente Orosa

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. VICENTE OROSA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-2916 | 1906-12-29

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

On the 16th of May, 1905, the defendant, Vicente Orosa, was charged by the provincial fiscal of Tayabas with the crime of illegal marriage (bigamy) in that he, on or about the 18th of April of the same year, being previously canonically married to one Laura Tenorio, and without such marriage having been lawfully dissolved, contracted a civil marriage with Gregoria Zaballero in the town of Lucena of the same province.

Proceedings having been instituted upon the said complaint, the court, in view of the result of the evidence introduced at the trial, entered judgment on the 9th of August, 1905, sentencing the...