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G.R. No. 1481  February 17, 1904

THE UNITED STATES,Complainant-Appellee, vs. LIBERATO EXALTACION, ET AL.,Defendants-Appellants.

Alberto Barretto for appellants.
Office of the Solicitor-General Araneta for appellee.

TORRES, J.:

March 26, 1903, the provincial fiscal of Bulacan presented to the court of that province an information charging Liberato Exaltacion and Buenaventura Tanchinco with the crime of rebellion, in that they, subsequently to the 4th day of November, 1901, willfully and illegally bound themselves to take part in a rebellion against the Government of the United States in these Islands, swearing allegiance to the Katipunan Society, the purpose of which was to overthrow the said Government by force of arms, this against the statute in the case made and provided.chanrobles virtual law library

In the course of the trial Don Pablo Tecson, the provincial governor of Bulacan, testified under oath that the two defendants were arrested in the month of March, 1903, the police some days before having captured a number of documents in the encampment of one Contreras, as so-called general of bandits, situated at a place called Langca, of the town of Meycauayan, among which documents appeared the papers now on pages 2 and 3 of the record, signed by the said Exaltacion and Tanchinco, who recognized the said documents when t