131 People V Kiichi Omine
131 People V Kiichi Omine
131 People V Kiichi Omine
KIICHI OMINE
61 Phil 609 (1935)
FACTS:
Defendants Eduardo Autor, Luis Ladion and Agapito Cortesano were working
under co-defendant Kiichi Omine, the overseer or manager of the hemp
plantation owned by Angel Pulido. The 4 defendants lived together in a house
on the plantation. Kiichi Omine asked Angel Pulido for permission to open a
new road through the plantation. According to Omine, Pulido did give his
permission so he began working on the new road. But according to Pulido, he
refused to grant this request because there was already an unfinished road.
As Pulido and his son along with 2 others were returning home from a cockpit,
they noticed that a considerable number of hemp plants destroyed by the
construction of the new road. There is a sharp conflict in the evidence as to
what followed. The witnesses for the prosecution contend that while the
offended party was talking with Omine, Eduardo Autor attempted to intervene,
but was prevented by Hilario Pulido; that Eduardo Autor attacked Hilario Pulido
with a bolo, but did not wound him except on the left thumb; that Luis Ladion
and Agapito Cortesano then held Angel Pulido by the arms, and when Eduardo
Autor approached, Omine shouted to him "pegale y matale", and Autor struck
Angel Pulido in the breast with his bolo.
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