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US vs Juan Melchor

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. JUAN MELCHOR, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 1201 | 1903-10-19

D E C I S I O N


McDONOUGH, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance convicting the appellant of homicide, and sentencing him to imprisonment for twelve years and one day, and to pay the widow of the deceased 500 pesos.

The killing of Gregorio Raymundo took place January 1, 1903, in the pueblo of Binmaley, Pangasinan, under such circumstances as to make it homicide, unless the testimony of the defendant be believed. He swore that on returning from the nipa plantation, in the afternoon of that day, he noticed something wrong in his house, and that on hurrying into it he discovered Raymundo in the act of...