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United States Vs. Eugenio Gacutan 028 Phil 100

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EUGENIO GACUTAN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 9601 | 1914-09-29

D E C I S I O N


MORELAND, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Cagayan convicting the accused of the crime of bribery, as defined in articles 385 and 389 of the Penal Code, and sentencing him to one year and one day of imprisonment, to pay a fine of P160, together with the costs of the proceeding, to suffer subsidiary imprisonment as prescribed by law, and to suffer temporary special disqualification for a period of six years and one day, and declaring the carabao forfeited to the Government of the Philippine Islands.

From the evidence in the case as introduced by the prosecution it appears that...