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BUTTE, J.:
Section 2 is as follows:
This Act shall not apply to persons convicted of offenses punished
with death penalty or life imprisonment; to those convicted of
treason, conspiracy or proposal to commit treason; to those
convicted of misprision of treason, sedition or espionage; to those
convicted of piracy; to those who are habitual delinquents; to those
who shall have escape from confinement or evaded sentence; to
those who having been granted conditional pardon by the Chief
Executive shall have violated the terms thereof; to those whose
maximum term of imprisonment does not exceed one year; nor to
those already sentenced by final judgment at the time of approval
of this Act, except as provided in section five hereof.
By its terms, Act No. 4103 became the law upon its approval, that is
to say, on December 5, 1933. chanroblesvi rtua lawlib rary cha nro bles vi rtua l law lib ra ry
Contrary to law.
It will be observed from section 1 of said Act that the court must
now, instead of a single fixed penalty, determine two penalties,
referred to in the Indeterminate Sentence Act as the "maximum"
and "minimum". The prisoner must serve the minimum penalty
before he is eligible for parole under the provisions of Act No. 4103,
which leaves the period between the minimum and maximum
penalty indeterminate in the sense that he may, under the condition
set out in said Act, be released from serving said period in whole or
in part. He must be sentenced, therefore, to imprisonment for a
period which is not more than the "maximum" nor less than the
"minimum", as these terms are used in the Indeterminate Sentence
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In the case before us on this appeal the next lower penalty to the
maximum already determined as aforesaid, is prision correccional in
its maximum period to prision mayor in its medium period, that is to
say, from four years, two months and one day to ten years. As
stated, it is in the discretion of the court to fix the time of
imprisonment within the said range without reference to the
technical subdivisions of maximum degree, medium degree and
minimum degree, and in this particular the courts are vested as
stated with a wider discretion than they ever had before. chanroblesvi rtua lawlib rary c hanro bles vi rtua l law li bra ry
The judgment of the court below is modified to this extent: that the
defendant-appellant is hereby sentenced to a maximum penalty of
ten years and one day of prision mayor in its maximum degree, and
to a minimum imprisonment period of seven years, and as thus
modified, the judgment appealed from is affirmed. With costs de
oficio.
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