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ited States Vs. Pio Vy Guico

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PIO VY GUICO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 4696 | 1908-12-09

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

Toward the middle of September, 1907, the accused was about to travel by sea on the Government coast-guard cutter Malecon from the town of Siaton to Dumaguete, Island of Negros. Sun Gong, a Chinaman residing in the last named town, commissioned the accused, Pio Vy Guico, to take with him on board the said cutter 18 empty demijohns that he had in the first-named town, and told him to pay the freight thereon; the accused accordingly paid the sum of one peso, which was the official charge for the carriage of the said demijohns; the captain of the cutter, Frank L. Ligenca, gave him a receipt, made out in...