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United States Vs. Buenaventura Balcorta 025 Phil 273

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BUENAVENTURA BALCORTA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 8722 | 1913-09-10

D E C I S I O N


TRENT, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija, sentencing the defendant, Buenaventura Balcorta, to three years six months and twenty-one days of prision correccional, and a fine of 625 pesetas, together with the accessory penalties provided by law.

It is alleged that the record, does not sustain the guilt of the appellant. The record, however, clearly shows that the accused entered a private house, uninvited, where services of the Methodist Episcopal Church were being conducted by between ten and twenty persons, and threatened the assemblage with a club, thereby interrupting...