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PEOPLE vs. Soledad Nery 119 Phil. 505

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, complainant-appellee, vs. SOLEDAD NERY, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. L-19567 | 1964-02-05

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J.: 

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental convicting Soledad Nery for estafa. The Court of Appeals certified it to this Supreme Court, the one and only issue raised in the appeal being one of law. 

The accused-appellant, Soledad Nery, conforms to the following findings of fact of the trial court: 

On 15 November 1954, in a market stall in Bacolod City, the said accused received from Federico Matillano two (2) diamond rings to be sold by her on commission. The agreement was for the accused to deliver, on the following day, the sum of P230.00 to...