THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE, VS. LUIS SANTIAGO ET AL., DEFENDANTS, LUIS SANTIAGO, TEODORO DAVID AND ALEJANDRO ESPINOLA, DEFENDANTSAND APPELLANTS.

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 ________14th________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 ___________Bataan________, dated the __________15th__________ day of _________November____________, nineteen hundred and ___________thirty-two____________,
and from which the above-entitled appeal was taken, be, and the same is
hereby, affirmed as to Luis Santiago, and, in accordance with the
provisions of the indeterminate Sentence Law, Act 4103, the judgment is
hereby modified by sentencing the appellant to an indeterminate period
of imprisonment running from a minimum of 1 month and 1 day, arresto mayor, to 1 year and 8 months, prision correocional,
with the penalties accessory thereto. The judgment requiring
indemnification by this appellant to Melchora Austria in the amount of
two thousand pesos is affirmed. The two other accused, Teodoro David
and Alejandro Espinola, are absolved from the complaint, with one third
of the costs of this appeal and one, fourth of the costs of the trial
in first instance against Luis Santiago. The costs to the accused who
are acquitted will be de oficio in both instances. One third
of the costs of this appeal amount to 58.00 for the collection of which
the trial judge shall proceed by summary proceedings.

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