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The United States Vs. Valentin Bernabe 023 Phil 154

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. VALENTIN BERNABE, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 6923 | 1912-09-12

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

This case comes to us on appeal from a judgment of conviction rendered by the Honorable Simplicio del Rosario, judge.

About half past 7 o'clock in the morning of July 30, 1910, while the unmarried girl, Ana Arasigan, a minor 14 years of age, was walking along San Sebastian street, on her way from Sampaloc to the millinery store named "Chic Parisien," situated in this city on the Escolta, where she worked as a seamstress, Valentin Bernabe, who was accompanying her, advised her, on the pretext that it was very late, to take a vehicle in order that she might get to the store quickly. The girl, therefore, hailed...