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People vs. Fabian

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. VICENTE FABIAN, accused and appellant

No. 10790-CR | 1973-03-12

[No. 10790-CR. March 12, 1973] *
 
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. VICENTE FABIAN, accused and appellant
 
MALVERSATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS; PAYMENT IN GOOD FAITH NEGATES CRIMINAL INTENT. — Not every unauthorized payment of public funds is malversation. There is malversation only if the public officer who has custody of public funds should appropriate the same, or shall take or misappropriate or shall permit any other person to take such public funds. Where the payment of public funds has been made in good faith, and there is reasonable ground to believe that the public officer to whom the fund had been...