UNITED STATES, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE, VS. PEDRO SIOCO AND LIONG FUN, DEFENDANTS. PEDRO SIOCO, DEFENDANT AND APPELLANT.

These defendants were charged with the crime of the illegal importation of
opium, in violation of Article 341 of Act 355. Upon said complaint they were
duly arrested, arraigned, tried and found guilty of the crime charged, and each
was sentenced to be imprisoned for a period of six months and to pay a fine of
P500.00, and in case of insolvency to suffer subsidiary imprisonment, and each
to pay one-half the costs. From that sentence the defendant, Pedro Sioco
appealed to this court.

The only question presented by the appellant in
this court is one of fact. He alleges that the evidence adduced during the trial
of the cause was not sufficient to show that he was guilty of the crime
charged.

The complaint alleges that on or about the 11th lay of March, 1914, in the
City of Manila, Philippine Islands, the said accused did then and there
knowingly, wilfully, illegally, criminally and fraudulently import and bring
into the said City of Manila, Philippine Islands, from a foreign country, on the
steamship “Manchuria”, contrary to law, eight hundred grams of morphine, a
derivative of opium and a prohibited drug; that said aused did then and there
receive, conceal and facilitate the transportation of said eight hundred grams
of morphine, after its importation into the Philippine Islands from a foreign
country, knowing the same to have “been imported contrary to law.

An examination of the evidence brought to this court shows, beyond a
reasonable doubt, that the defendant is guilty of the crime charged in the
complaint. Therefore the sentence of the lower court ie hereby affirmed, with
costs.

It is so ordered.

After the expiration of 10 days from the date hereof, let Judgment be entered
in accordance herewith, and 10 days thereafter let the record be returned to the
court from whence it came, for execution.