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United States Vs. Lim Sing, Et Al 023 Phil 424

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LIM SING alias LIM SIN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 7428 | 1912-11-12

D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J.:

The evidence of record conclusively establishes the guilt of the appellant of smoking opium in violation of the provisions of Act No. 1761; and further that he is a recidivist, in that on a former occasion he was convicted of a similar violation of the Opium Law.

The trial judge found him guilty as charged in the information, and ordered his deportation from the Philippine Islands under the provisions of section 32 of Act No. 1761, as amended by section 4 of Act No. 1910, which is as follows:

"On and after March first, nineteen hundred and eight, it shall be unlawful for any person in the Philippine Islands...