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    Sergio del Rosario, Alfonso Araneta and Benedicto del Pilar were convicted of illegally possessing forged Philippine treasury notes. They showed genuine treasury notes to a complainant, whose digits had been altered, and induced him to believe they were counterfeit in order to obtain money to manufacture more. The issue was whether possession of the altered genuine notes constituted a violation. The court held that possession of genuine notes with erased or altered figures, letters or signs, with knowledge and intent to use them, as was done in this case, violates the relevant law against counterfeiting.

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    Sergio del Rosario, Alfonso Araneta and Benedicto del Pilar were convicted of illegally possessing forged Philippine treasury notes. They showed genuine treasury notes to a complainant, whose digits had been altered, and induced him to believe they were counterfeit in order to obtain money to manufacture more. The issue was whether possession of the altered genuine notes constituted a violation. The court held that possession of genuine notes with erased or altered figures, letters or signs, with knowledge and intent to use them, as was done in this case, violates the relevant law against counterfeiting.

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    Sergio Del Rosario v. People

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    Sergio del Rosario, Alfonso Araneta and Benedicto del Pilar were convicted of illegally possessing forged Philippine treasury notes. They showed genuine treasury notes to a complainant, whose digits had been altered, and induced him to believe they were counterfeit in order to obtain money to manufacture more. The issue was whether possession of the altered genuine notes constituted a violation. The court held that possession of genuine notes with erased or altered figures, letters or signs, with knowledge and intent to use them, as was done in this case, violates the relevant law against counterfeiting.

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    SERGIO DEL ROSARIO v.

    THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES


    G.R. No. L-16806 December 22, 1961

    FACTS:
    Accused of counterfeiting Philippine treasury notes, Sergio del Rosario, Alfonso Araneta and Benedicto del Pilar were convicted by
    the Court of First Instance of Davao of illegal possession of said forged treasury notes and sentenced to an indeterminate penalty
    ranging from 8 years and 1 day to 10 years and 1 day of prisin mayor, and to pay a fine of P5,000, without subsidiary imprisonment
    in case of insolvency, as well as a proportionate part of the costs. On appeal, the judgment was affirmed by the Court of Appeals,
    except insofar as the maximum of said indeterminate penalty which was increased to 10 years, 8 months and 1 day of prisin mayor.
    The case is before us on appeal by certiorari taken by Sergio del Rosario.

    Accused showed to complainant Apolinario del Rosario Philippine one-peso bills and induced him to believe that the same were
    counterfeit paper money manufactured by them, although in fact they were genuine treasury notes of the Philippine Government
    one of the digits of each of which had been altered and changed. The aforementioned defendants had succeeded in obtaining
    P1,700.00 from said complainant, in the City of Davao, on June 23, 1955, for the avowed purpose of financing the manufacture of
    more counterfeit treasury notes of the Philippines.

    ISSUE:
    Whether the possession of said treasury notes constitutes a violation of Article 168 of the Revised Penal Code?

    HELD:
    It is clear from these provisions that the possession of genuine treasury notes of the Philippines any of "the figures, letters, words
    or signs contained" in which had been erased and/or altered, with knowledge of such erasure and alteration, and with the intent to
    use such notes, as they were used by petitioner herein and his co-defendants in the manner adverted to above, is punishable under
    said Article 168, in relations to Article 166, subdivision (1), of the Revised Penal Code (U.S. v. Gardner, 3 Phil., 398; U.S. v. Solito, 36
    Phil., 785).

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