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PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

FIRST DIVISION

[G.R. No. 36806. March 1, 1933. ]

LA COMPAÑIA GENERAL DE TABACOS DE FILIPINAS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. G. L. MARCELINO ET AL., Defendants. VALENTINA NACIANCENO and PEDRO ANGULO, Appellants.

J. Pardo de Tavera, for appellant Nacianceno.

Teofilo Mendoza, for appellant Angulo.

C. A. Sobral, for Appellee.

SYLLABUS


1. HUSBAND AND WIFE; MISAPPROPRIATION BY HUSBAND; WIFE’S CIVIL LIABILITY. — The evidence does not sustain the allegation that the appellant V. N. connived with her husband in the misappropriation of the funds belonging to the plaintiff, or the finding of the trial court that she must have known that the money her husband gave her had a criminal origin. She was not a principal, accomplice, or accessory as to the crime for which her husband was convicted in a prior case, and no judgment can be rendered against her merely because of the commission of crime.

2. ID.; ID.; ID.; CONJUGAL PROPERTY. — If the wife had acquired property with money received from her husband, that property is of course conjugal property and liable for the satisfaction of a judgment against the husband, regardless of whether the money was stolen by the husband from the plaintiff or won at gambling, but the plaintiff is not entitled to a judgment against her in that case for the money she received or the cost of the property.


D E C I S I O N


VICKERS, J.:


This is an appeal by two of the defendants, Valentina Nacianceno and Pedro Angulo, from a decision of Judge Mariano A. Albert of the Court of First Instance of Manila, the dispositive part of which is as follows:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph

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