Back

United States Vs. Alabot 038 Phil 698

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ALABOT (alias) PAGUINAGUINA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 13052 | 1918-10-04

D E C I S I O N


STREET, J .:

This case has been here transmitted for review of a judgment of the Court of First Instance of the Province of Lanao, convicting the accused of the crime of robbery with homicide, committed upon the person of Charles H. Mills, and sentencing him to death.

The evidence establishes beyond doubt that sometime previous to September 14, 1915, - probably a day or two before this date a party of about eight armed Moros had gone to a certain place near a lake in the Province of Lanao in order to procure subsistence by begging or stealing. The defendants Alabot, Kao, and Makarimpong, and the witnesses for the...