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PEOPLE vs. Francisco Colmenares and Celso Llorico

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. FRANCISCO COLMENARES and CELSO LLORICO, defendants and appellants.

G.R. No. L-13284 | 1960-02-29

D E C I S I O N


LABRADOR, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental, Hon. Jose Teodoro, Sr., presiding, holding that the judgment of the Justice of the Peace court from which the appeal was made to the Court of First Instance in Criminal Case No. 4567 of said court, had already become final, by failure of the defendants to file their notice of appeal on time, and remanding the record to the Justice of the Peace for the execution of the latter's judgment.

Defendants-appellants were charged in the Justice of the Peace court of La Castellana, for the crime of theft of 15 cavans of palay,...