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People vs. Almuete

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. WENCESLAO ALMUETE, FERNANDO FRONDA, FAUSTO DURION and CIPRIANO FRONDA, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-26551 | 1976-02-27

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J:

Wenceslao Almuete, Fernando Fronda, Cipriano Fronda and Fausto Durion were charged with a violation of Section 39 of the Agricultural Tenancy Law. It was alleged in the information that in December, 1963, in Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, the accused being tenants of Margarita Fernando in her riceland, without notice to her or without her consent, pre-threshed a portion of their respective harvests of five (5) cavans of palay each to her damage in the amount of Pl87.50 at Pl2.50 a cavan (Criminal Case No. SD-179, Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija, Sto. Domingo Branch Vl).

Upon arraignment the accused pleaded not...