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PEOPLE vs. L. Gonzalez

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LAUREANO GONZALEZ, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 48293 | 1942-04-17

D E C I S I O N

MORAN, J:

Appellant, Laureano Gonzalez, was charged in the Court of First Instance of Manila with the crime of estafa through falsification of a public document. The information alleges that on or about the 9th of November 1940, appellant, as a laborer in the Department of Labor with the duty of running errands, with intent to defraud the Government of the Commonwealth, forged and falsified a public document, which is a reimbursement expense receipt, by preparing the said receipt and writing thereon the signature of Enrique Corpus, chief of the property section of the Department of Labor, making it appear that he...