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People vs. Ernesto Silvela

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. ERNESTO SILVELA, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-10610 | 1958-05-26

D E C I S I O N


BENGZON, J.:

Ernesto A. Silvela was arrested in Iloilo upon a sworn complaint of Rosalia Bermejo Palauar, which had been preliminarily investigated by the City Fiscal thereof.

Said complaint alleged that the accused,

". . . signed, sent and addressed two unsealed letters to the undersigned containing a certain false, malicious and defamatory libel tending to injure and impeach the honesty, virtue, honor, reputation and integrity of the undersigned, by then and there willfully, maliciously and criminally branding, calling and imputing to the undersigned among others as "Pompom, Naga Business, Naga Prostitute,...