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they were found in the part of the ship where the firemen
habitually sleep xxx another can of opium, marked "Exhibit D,"
is also corpus delicti and important as evidence in this cause.
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Held: Yes, the Philippine courts have jurisdiction.
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which arrived the port of Cebu on April 25, 1917, after a
voyage direct from the port of Saigon. The defendant bought
eight cans of opium in Saigon, brought them on board the
steamship and had them in his possession during the trip from
Saigon to Cebu. When the steamer anchored in the port of
Cebu, the authorities on making the search found the cans of
opium hidden in the ashes below the boiler of the steamer's
engine. The defendant confessed that he was the owner of the
opium and that he had purchased it in Saigon. He did not
confess, however, as to his purpose in buying the opium. He
did not say that it was his intention to import the prohibited
drug.
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customhouse. Moreover, possession for personal use is
unlikely, judging from the size of the amount brought.
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PADILLA vs DIZON
FACTS
An information was filed against Lo Chi Fai with the RTC for
violation of Sec. 6, Central Bank Circular No. 960 with a penal
sanction provided by Sec. 1, PD NO. 1883.
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temporary visitors bringing with them more than US$3,000.00
or its equivalent in other foreign currencies shall declare their
foreign exchange in the form prescribed by the Central Bank at
points of entries upon arrival in the Philippines.
Sec. 1, P.D. No. 1883 provides that any person who shall
engage in the trading or purchase and sale of foreign currency
in violation of existing laws or rules and regulations of the
Central Bank shall be guilty of the crime of blackmarketing of
foreign exchange and shall suffer the penalty of reclusion
temporal (minimum of 12 years and 1 day and maximum of 20
years) and a fine of no less than P50,000.00.
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ISSUE
HELD
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People vs Oanis
Ruling: NO.
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FACTS
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his employers and dressed Pascuals wound but he died on the
following day.
ISSUE
HELD
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imminent danger which he believe threatened his person and
his property and the property under his charge.
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US V. VALDEZ
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As it was full midday, and there was nothing to obstruct the
view of persons upon the scene, the failure of Venancio
Gargantel to rise to the surface conclusively shows that, owing
to his possible inability to swim or the strength of the current,
he was borne down into the water and was drowned.
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In this connection a pertinent decision from the Supreme Court
of Spain, of July 13, 1882, is cited in the brief of The Attorney-
General, as follows: It appeared that upon a certain occasion
an individual, after having inflicted sundry injuries upon
another with a cutting weapon, pointed a shotgun at the
injured person and to escape the discharge the latter had to
jump into a river where he perished by drowning. The medical
authorities charged with conducting the autopsy found that
only one of the wounds caused by a cut could have resulted in
the death of the injured person, supposing that he had
received no succour, and that by throwing himself in the river
he in fact died of asphyxia from submersion. Having been
convicted as the author of the homicide, the accused alleged
upon appeal that he was only guilty of the offense of inflicting
serious physical injuries, or at most of frustrated homicide. The
Supreme Court, disallowing the appeal, enunciated the
following doctrine: "That even though the death of the injured
person should not be considered as the exclusive and
necessary effect of the very grave wound which almost
completely severed his axillary artery, occasioning a
hemorrhage impossible to stanch under the circumstances in
which that person was placed, nevertheless as the persistence
of the aggression of the accused compelled his adversary, in
order to escape the attack, to leap into the river, an act which
the accused forcibly compelled the injured person to do after
having inflicted, among others, a mortal wound upon him and
as the aggressor by said attack manifested a determined
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resolution to cause the death of the deceased, by depriving
him of all possible help and putting him in the very serious
situation narrated in the decision appealed from, the trial
court, in qualifying the act prosecuted as consummated
homicide, did not commit any error of law, as the death of the
injured person was due to the act of the accused." (II Hidalgo,
Codigo Penal, p. 183.)
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Pp v. PURIFICACION ALMONTE
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her new paramour might get jealous and do her harm. The
accused insisted upon remaining, and on being pushed by Te
Sue and Miguela, feeling that she was being unjustly treated,
took hold of a small penknife she carried and stabbed the man
in the abdomen. Horrified, perhaps, at her deed, she fled to
the street, leaving the blade sticking in her victim's abdomen.
The injured man was at once taken to the provincial hospital
where he was given first aid treatment, and Doctor Ortega
performed a slight operation upon him.
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The defense contends, with which the Attorney-General
agrees, that according to Doctor Ortega's testimony the
determining cause of Te Sue's death was not he wound
inflicted by the accused, but his own carelessness in moving
about against the doctor's orders, which produced the internal
hemorrhage.
RULING: YES.
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The patient's nervous condition when the complication or
internal hemorrhage which caused death set in, was an
inherent physiological condition produced by the wound in the
abdomen. It goes without saying that if he had not been
wounded he would not have undergone that extraordinary
state and condition, nor have had to leave his bed during the
critical stage of his illness.
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suffer the accessory penalties of article 61 of the Penal Code,
and to pay the costs of both instances. So ordered.
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