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US vs Julian Atienza

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellant, vs. JULIAN ATIENZA, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 1043 | 1903-05-15

D E C I S I O N


MAPA, J.:

The accused was acquitted in the First Instance of the charge of robbery, upon which he was prosecuted. The complaining witness and the provincial fiscal appealed against the judgment of acquittal.

The evidence in the record shows: (1) That the accused, who was employed as a secret-service agent by the military authorities, received orders from Lieut. J. B. Hennesy to seize all the money in the possession of Father Angel Ilagan, the complaining witness, it being believed, upon information received by the said lieutenant, that the money referred to was the property of a revolutionary officer; (2) that in...