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PEOPLE vs. Dumapit

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. POLICARPIO DUMAPIT, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-743 | 1949-10-11

D E C I S I O N

PARAS, J p:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the People's Court finding the appellant, Policarpio Dumapit, guilty of treason and imposing upon him the penalty of reclusion perpetua, a fine of ten thousand pesos, and the costs.

The information charged six counts, but the People's Court based appellant's conviction only on counts IV and VI. Under count IV, the appellant is alleged to have caused, with the aid of a group of Constabulary soldiers, the arrest in barrio Balingahili, municipality of Botolan, province of Zambales, in March, 1943, of eight guerrillas who were thereafter investigated and tortured by the...