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    Complainant-Appellee: THE UNITED STATES Defendants-Appellants: APOLONIO CABALLEROS, ET AL

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    The defendants were adjudged guilty by the lower court for burying the bodies of four murdered school teachers, making them accessories to the crime. However, the Supreme Court acquitted them, finding that one defendant was compelled by irresistible force to bury the corpses when threatened by the murderers. There was also no proof that the other defendant participated in the burial.

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    The defendants were adjudged guilty by the lower court for burying the bodies of four murdered school teachers, making them accessories to the crime. However, the Supreme Court acquitted them, finding that one defendant was compelled by irresistible force to bury the corpses when threatened by the murderers. There was also no proof that the other defendant participated in the burial.

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    The defendants were adjudged guilty by the lower court for burying the bodies of four murdered school teachers, making them accessories to the crime. However, the Supreme Court acquitted them, finding that one defendant was compelled by irresistible force to bury the corpses when threatened by the murderers. There was also no proof that the other defendant participated in the burial.

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    US V.

    CABALLEROS (1910)
    Complainant-appellee: THE UNITED STATES
    Defendants-appellants: APOLONIO CABALLEROS, ET AL.
    Exempting Circumstances; Irresistible force
    SUMMARY: Defendants were adjudged guilty as accessories in a crime of murder because they
    buried the bodies. The SC acquitted them since they were only compelled to do so by
    irresistible force.
    FACTS:

    Defendants were sentenced by CFI as accessories1 in the crime of assassination of 4


    school-teachers, because even though they didnt participate in the crime as principals
    or as accomplices, they buried the corpses of the school-teachers in order to conceal the
    crime.

    ISSUE/S:

    WoN the defendants are criminally liable


    o NO. One defendant was gathering some bananas in a banana plantation and
    took no part in the killing, but the murderers struck him with the butts of their
    guns and forced him to bury the corpses. Thus he was compelled by irresistible
    force and exempted from liability.
    o There is no proof that the other defendant even took part in the burial. Although
    he confessed his liability, he was made to do so on the promise that nothing
    would be done to them. This confession was not freely made and cannot be
    accepted as proof on trial.
    o It doesnt matter that the defendants didnt report the crime to the authorities,
    since this act isnt punished in the Revised Penal Code and cant render them
    liable.

    1 Art. 19. Accessories. Accessories are those who, having knowledge of the commission of
    the crime, and without having participated therein, either as principals or accomplices, take
    part subsequent to its commission in any of the following manners: chan robles virtual law
    library1. By profiting themselves or assisting the offender to profit by the effects of the
    crime.chanrobles virtual law library
    2. By concealing or destroying the body of the crime, or the effects or instruments thereof,
    in order to prevent its discovery.chanrobles virtual law library
    3. By harboring, concealing, or assisting in the escape of the principals of the crime,
    provided the accessory acts with abuse of his public functions or whenever the author of the
    crime is guilty of treason, parricide, murder, or an attempt to take the life of the Chief
    Executive, or is known to be habitually guilty of some other crime.

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