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United States Vs. Mateo Lapus, Et Al.

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MATEO LAPUS, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 1222 | 1906-01-21

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

In a complaint filed by the provincial fiscal in the Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija among others, Mateo Lapus, Bonifacio Bautista, Rufino Ordoñez, Victorino Manalang, and Pedro Bautista were charged with the crime of sedition. The complaint alleged that on the night of June 3, 1902, a band composed of about four hundred men, among whom were the accused, armed with guns, revolvers, talibones, bolos, and clubs, raided the town of Cabiao; that said band went through the streets of the town firing shots, yelling, and frightening the inhabitants thereof; that some of said band went to the house of...