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PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

EN BANC

[G.R. No. 4675. November 21, 1908. ]

THE UNITED STATES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RICARDO MENDIOLA, Defendant-Appellant.

Joseph N. Wolfson, for Appellant.

Solicitor-General Harvey, for Appellee.

SYLLABUS


1. SUBSIDIARY IMPRISONMENT. — Subsidiary personal liability on account of insolvency should not be imposed where the principal penalty to which the convict is sentenced is higher in the general sale of penalties than that of presidio correccional. (Art. 51, Penal Code.)


D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J. :


The guilt of the appellant of the crime of falsification of a public document with which he was charged is fully and conclusively established not only by the testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution, but by his extrajudicial written admission of the facts constituting the offense and his admissions on the witness stand testifying in his own behalf.

The statement of the accused that he falsified the document in question at the suggestion and request of the presidente of the town of which he was treasurer was formally denied by that official; and, even if it were true, it in no wise relieves the accused of his criminal responsibility.

The sentence imposed by the trial court is in strict conformity with the provisions of the Penal Code, defining and penalizing the crime of which the appellant is convicted, except in so far as it imposes subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency and failure to pay the fine imposed of 1,250 pesetas. Article 51 of the Penal Code expressly provides that subsidiary personal liability on account of insolvency shall not be imposed upon a person condemned to a penalty higher in the general scale than that of presidio correccional. The principal penalty imposed in this case is that of fourteen years eight months and one day of cadena temporal. The sentence imposed by the trial court should, therefore, be modified by omitting therefrom so much thereof as undertakes to impose subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency and failure to pay the fine, and, thus modified, it should be and is whereby affirmed with the costs of this instance against the Appellant. So ordered.

Arellallo, C.J., Torres, Mapa, Johnson, Willard and Tracey, JJ., concur.




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