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Criminal Law Review Wright V Ca (1994) - Case On Extradition/Ex Post Facto Law
Criminal Law Review Wright V Ca (1994) - Case On Extradition/Ex Post Facto Law
Facts:
Issue: Whether the courts of the Philippines have jurisdiction over crime,
like the one herein involved, committed aboard merchant vessels
anchored in our jurisdiction waters?
But to smoke opium within our territorial limits, even though aboard a
foreign merchant ship, is certainly a breach of the public order here
established, because it causes such drug to produce its pernicious