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Rev. Arcand vs. PEOPLE

REVEREND ULRIC ARCAND, petitioner, vs. THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent.

G.R. No. 46336 | 1939-09-29

D E C I S I O N


IMPERIAL, J:

The accused was charged in the justice of the peace court of Lucena, Province of Tayabas, with the light felony of oral defamation defined and punished by article 358 of the Revised Penal Code, for having insulted the offended party from the pulpit of the Roman Catholic Church of said town, calling him gangster No. 1 and saying that he would send him to jail like gangster No. 2, referring to Antonio Nosce. The accused pleaded not guilty but the justice of the peace court, after due trial, found him guilty of said light felony and sentenced him to pay a fine in the sum of P20, with the corresponding...