G. R. No. 41010

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE VS. TERESO PONTILLAS, DEFENDANT AND APPELLANT. D E C I S I O N

[ G. R. No. 41010. May 29, 1934 ] G. R. No. 41010

[ G. R. No. 41010. May 29, 1934 ]

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE VS. TERESO PONTILLAS, DEFENDANT AND APPELLANT. D E C I S I O N

J. STEVENS-ACTING CLERK OF COURT

This court having regularly acquired jurisdiction for the trial of the above-entitled cause submitted by both parties for decision,after consideration thereof by the Court upon the record, its decision and order for the judgment having been filed on the ________12th________day of May, A. D. nineteen hundred and _thirty-four;

By virtue thereof it is hereby adjudged and decreed that the order of the Court of the First Instance of Leyte, dated the 11th day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and from which the above-entitled appeal was taken, be, and the same is hereby, affirmed with the modification that the maximum period of confinement is fixed at four years of prision correccional and the minimum penalty, under Act No. 4103, is fixed at six months of arresto mayor, with costs de oficio.

It is further ordered that the said cause be remanded to the Court of First Instance.