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G.R. No. 1513  February 12, 1904

THE UNITED STATES,Complainant-Appellee, vs. CASIANO SADIAN,Defendant-Appellant.

Juan Sumulong for appellant.
Office of the Solicitor-General Araneta for appellee.

TORRES, J.:

The provincial fiscal of Ilocos Norte filed an information in the Court of First Instance of the province, charging Casiano Sadian, Monico Dada, Ramon Dacpo, Basilio Sanchez, and Damian Tabonan with having formed a secret political society, in that during the latter part of June and early in July, 1903, they met together with other in the forest of some of the barrios of the town of Paoay, Ilocos Norte, for the purpose of forming a secret political society entitled "Kanayouan," the purpose of which was to obtain the independence of the Philippines by means of insurrection, treason, and rebellion against the Government of the United States of America in these Islands, this against the provisions of Act No. 292 of the Civil Commission.chanrobles virtual law library

The trial having commenced, Ariston Umayam under oath testified that on Sunday, July 5, 1903, upon going to a house belonging to a brother of his in the barrio called Pias, Casiano Sadian, Sergio Sadang, and Sergio Sancali came to the house, and that upon the invitation of Sadang they all went out into a cane field; that shortly after Casiano Sadian arrived and asked the witness if he d