#Espionage definition tagalog trial#

Some of them admitted having been present at the time of the killing, and others, that they were away. As to the appellants, in their individual extrajudicial declarations, none of them has admitted having participated in the killing of either Lorenzana or the Beltran brothers. As above stated, Timoteo Cruz is still at large and Manuel Bañez did not appeal. Defendant Manuel Bañez admitted in his extrajudicial confession having struck Lorenzana thrice on the head with a hammer, and defendant Timoteo Cruz in his extrajudicial confession admitted having stabbed Virgilio Beltran with a dagger. The evidence of the defense tends to prove, among others that the victims, Ernesto Lorenzana in the first case, and Virgilio Beltran in the second case were all Japanese spies.Īfter going over all the record, we find no evidence in both cases showing the guilt of the appellants beyond reasonable doubt.

Juanito Magalis, Timoteo Cruz and Benjamin Cochon are still at large. From the judgment only the following appealed: Lorenzo Samano, Epifanio Carballo, Avelino Alcantara and Ricardo Cubillas. They were then formally accused, tried and found guilty of the murders of Virgilio and Emilio, and sentenced to reclusion perpetua to indemnify the heirs of the deceased in the amount of P2,000 and to pay costs. The Criminal Investigation Division then arrested the herein defendants and questioned them, obtaining the sworn declarations now appearing in the record of this case. Upon investigation, and in the same exhumation conducted in the first case, among several corpses unearthed, two were identified as those of the Beltran brothers. On February 23, 1945, Francisca Capulong, wife of Virgilio Beltran, complained to the Criminal Investigation Division of the killing of her husband and his brother Emilio. Also, the house of Virgilio Beltran was raided and his furniture carted away. After the investigation, the brothers were executed. 70022, the evidence shows that on or about February 22,1945, Virgilio and Emilio Beltran, brothers, were apprehended and investigated at the headquarters of Company 'G,' 51st Infantry, Ramsey Guerilla Unit, on charges of espionage and pro-Japanese activities. Whereupon, appellants were apprehended and submitted to individual investigations, in the course of which they made and signed the sworn statements appearing in the record of this case. On February 27, 1945, in an exhumation conducted by said Criminal Investigation Division near the house of Totoy del Rosario, the putrifying corpse of Ernesto Lorenzana, among several others, was unearthed, and identified by Rosendo Lorenzana as that of his son. On February 23, 1945, upon complaint filed by Rosendo Lorenzana, father of the deceased Ernesto, the Criminal Investigation Division of the United States Army, initiated an inquiry into the case.

Subsequently, he was transferred to the house of a certain Totoy del Rosario, wherein he was investigated on alleged charges of espionage for the Japanese, and around the premises of which he was beaten to death. The evidence of the prosecution in this case shows that on February 22, 1945, at about the hour of 6 o'clock in the evening, Ernesto Lorenzana was in a dice game at Solis Street, Tondo, Manila, when three men took him away in a carretela and brought him to a place in Blumentritt Street known as the headquarters of Company 'G,' 51st Infantry, Ramsey Guerilla Unit. The defendants appealed except Manuel Bañez and Maximo Pabalan, and except Pablo Senson, Alfredo Rivera and Arcadio Castro who remain unapprehended. 70021, Manuel Bañez, Estanislao Tauyan, Marciano Medina, Maximo Feliciano, Pablo Senson, Lorenzo Samano, Alfredo Rivera, Maximo Pabalan, Francisco Feliciano and Arcadia Castro were found guilty of the murder of Ernesto Lorenzana, and sentenced to (a) reclusion perpetua, with the exception of the minor Francisco Feliciano who was ordered committed to the Philippine Training School for Boys until he reaches the age of majority (b) to indemnify the heirs of the deceased in the sum of P2,000 and (c) to pay the costs.

#Espionage definition tagalog trial#

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila after a joint trial of criminal cases Nos. Mendoza for appellant Cubillas.įirst Assistant Solicitor General Reyes and Assistant Solicitor General Kapunan, jr. de Guzman for appellants Feliciano and Feliciano.įrancisco and Jacinto for appellant Carballo.Īlfonso E. Garcia for appellants Tauyan and Medina.ĭomingo F. LORENZO SAMANO ET AL., defendants-appellants. MANUEL BAÑEZ, ET AL., defendants-appellants. THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee,