Article 56 of Act 136 defines the jurisdiction of Courts of First Instance. Under clause 6 of this article these courts have jurisdiction "in all criminal cases in which a penalty of more than six months' imprisonment or a fine exceeding one hundred dollars may be imposed."
The testimony of the clergyman, Tranquilino Manahan, is written in such a manner that it is almost impossible to know if reference is made to threats actually made in his presence or to a narration of prior threats related to him in the interview referred to. We are inclined to believe the latter, inasmuch as it is not probable that at an interview at which the accused and the complaining witness were present, which interview seems to have been held for the purpose of securing the money which the latter had promised to pay to the accused, the defendant should have threatened the other with death if she did not do the very thing which he was then performing.
This is an appeal from the judgment given in favor of the defendant by the Court of First Instance of Manila in the action of interdiction instituted for the purpose of retaining the possession of the half story and to recover the possession of the upper story of the same house.
G.R. No. 518, February 15, 1902 | THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellant, vs. ROSARIO DE GUZMAN, defendant-appellee.
G.R. No. 581, February 14, 1902 | In the matter of the application of A.W. PRAUTCH for a writ of habeas corpus.
G.R. No. 198, February 14, 1902 | THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. JUAN LLAMES, defendant-appellant.
G.R. No. 106, February 14, 1902 | THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. EMILIANO PARAISO, defendant-appellant.
G.R. No. 65, February 13, 1902 | THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellant, vs. JOSE REGALADO Y SANTA ANA, defendant-appellee.
G.R. No. 35, February 11, 1902 | MIGUEL FABIE, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FELICIANA DE GUZMAN, defendant-appellant.
G.R. No. 432, February 6, 1902 | THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellee, vs. GERONIMO LEAL, ET AL., defendants-appellants. Aguedo Velarde, for appellants. Office of the Solicitor-General Araneta, for appellee.
