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US vs. Juan Pico 018 Phil 386

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JUAN PICO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-5487 | 1911-02-11

D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J.:

This is a motion to dismiss the information filed in this case and all the proceedings based thereon, including the modified sentence of seventeen years four months and one day of cadena temporal together with the accessory penalties prescribed by law which was imposed upon the defendant and appellant by this court upon his conviction of the crime of asesinato (assassination, murder in the first degree).

The ground on which this motion is based is the alleged repugnancy of the penalty thus imposed, as also of the penalty prescribed by the Penal Code for the crime of which the defendant was convicted, to that...