Ocampo v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. . The facts, which involve the validity of a judgment of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands in a prosecution for criminal libel and the validity of Act No. 612 of the Philippine Commission, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
On November 5, 1908, an information was filed in the Court of First Instance of the City of Manila, charging plaintiffs in error, with others, as editors, proprietors, owners, directors, writers, managers, administrators, printers, and publishers of the newspaper “El Renacimiento,” with publishing in that city a libel against Dean C. Worcester, then a member of the Philippine Commission. The information was subscribed and sworn to by the acting prosecuting attorney, and appended to it, and likewisé sworn to. by him, was the following declara tion: “A preliminary investigation* has been…
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