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United States Vs. Melencio Tubig

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. MELENCIO TUBIG, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 1275 | 1904-01-23

D E C I S I O N


McDONOUGH, J.:

The appellant, Melencio Tubig, who was a soldier of the Eight Company of Native Scouts, Macabebes, by information filed in the Court of First Instance of San Isidro February 15, 1902, was charged with having on the 23d day of November, 1901, in the pueblo of Bongabon, Province of Nueva Ecija, assassinated one Antonio Alivia.

At the opening of the trial on November 22, 1902, at San Isidro, the counsel for the accused made a motion that to the plea of the defendant of "not guilty" there be attached the further plea that he was once before in jeopardy for the same offense, because the accused wa tried before...