People vs. Valencia
People vs. Valencia
People vs. Valencia
December 8, 1933]
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff and appellee, vs. MARCELINO
VALENCIA, MELCHOR QUIJANO, and SOCORRO QUIJANÓ, defendants. MARCELINO
VALENCIA and SOCORRO QUIJANO, appellants.
ABAD SANTOS, J.:
Appellants Marcelino Valencia and Socorro Quijano, together with Melchor Quijano, were
prosecuted in the Court of First Instance of Pampanga under the following information:
"Que en o hacia el día 21 de marzo de 1933, en el Municipio de Mabalácat, Provincia de
Pampanga, Islas Filipinas, los referidos acusados, Marcelino Valencia, Melchor Quijano y
Socorro Quijano, confabulándose entre sí, de común acuerdo, ayudándose mutuamente y en
connivencia con los fabricantes de billetes de banco falsos, quienes hasta ahora no han sido
identificados, voluntaria, ilegal y criminalmente, expendieron e hicieron pasar un billete de
banco falsificado a sabiendas de que lo era, en la f orma y manera siguiente:
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years and one day to ten years and eight months. The fine imposed by the lower court should
be without any subsidiary imprisonment pursuant to article 39, rule 3, of the Revised Penal
Code.
The crime committed by Socorro Quijano falls under article 168 of the Revised Penal Code,
and the penalty prescribed is prisión mayor in its medium degree, which should be applied in
its medium period, in the absence of any mitigating or aggravating circumstance in the
commission of the crime. Pursuant to the provisions of said Act No. 4103, she is hereby
sentenced to suffer a term of imprisonment of from six years and one day to nine years and
four months. She is also sentenced to pay a fine of P100, without any subsidiary
imprisonment. (Article 168, in relation with article 166, case 2, and article 39, rule 3, of the
Revised Penal Code.)
Modified as above indicated, the judgment is affirmed with costs against the appellants. So
ordered.
Street, Vickers, Butte, and Diaz, JJ., concur.
Judgment modified.