Trono v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE'PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The plaintiffs in error were proceeded against in the court of first instance of the province of Bulacan, Philippine Islands, upon a complaint accusing them of causing the death of Benito Perez “with great cruelty and evident premeditation . . . by means of blows given with the butts of guns, they cooperating one with the other. ” In other words, the accused were complained of as guilty of murder in the first degree.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE'PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The plaintiffs in error were proceeded against in the court of first instance of the province of Bulacan, Philippine Islands, upon a complaint accusing them of causing the death of Benito Perez “with great cruelty and evident premeditation . . . by means of blows given with the butts of guns, they cooperating one with the other. ” In other words, the accused were complained of as guilty of murder in the first degree. They were tried in the court above mentioned and were acquitted of the crime of murder and convicted of the crime of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The plaintiffs in error seek a reversal of the judgment in their case on the ground that the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands had no power to reverse the judgment of the court; of first instance, and then find them guilty of a higher crime than that of which they had been convicted in that court, and of which higher crime that court had acquitted them, and they contend that such ■ conviction by the Supreme Court of the islands was a violation of the act of Congress, passed July 1, 1902, 32 Stat, 691, a portion of the fifth section of that act providing that “no person for the same…
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