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    People vs. Lol-Lo, G.R. No. L-17958

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    Two Moro men, Lol-lo and Saraw, attacked a Dutch boat between islands in the Dutch East Indies, killing and raping passengers. They were later arrested in the Philippine Islands and charged with piracy in the Court of First Instance of Sulu. Their defense argued the court did not have jurisdiction over crimes committed outside Philippine territory. However, the court ruled it had jurisdiction because piracy is a crime against all humanity, not any particular state, and can be prosecuted in any court where the offenders are found. As piracy has no territorial limits, the CFI of Sulu properly had authority over Lol-lo and Saraw.

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    Two Moro men, Lol-lo and Saraw, attacked a Dutch boat between islands in the Dutch East Indies, killing and raping passengers. They were later arrested in the Philippine Islands and charged with piracy in the Court of First Instance of Sulu. Their defense argued the court did not have jurisdiction over crimes committed outside Philippine territory. However, the court ruled it had jurisdiction because piracy is a crime against all humanity, not any particular state, and can be prosecuted in any court where the offenders are found. As piracy has no territorial limits, the CFI of Sulu properly had authority over Lol-lo and Saraw.

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    Two Moro men, Lol-lo and Saraw, attacked a Dutch boat between islands in the Dutch East Indies, killing and raping passengers. They were later arrested in the Philippine Islands and charged with piracy in the Court of First Instance of Sulu. Their defense argued the court did not have jurisdiction over crimes committed outside Philippine territory. However, the court ruled it had jurisdiction because piracy is a crime against all humanity, not any particular state, and can be prosecuted in any court where the offenders are found. As piracy has no territorial limits, the CFI of Sulu properly had authority over Lol-lo and Saraw.

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    People vs. Lol-Lo, G.R. No. L-17958

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    Two Moro men, Lol-lo and Saraw, attacked a Dutch boat between islands in the Dutch East Indies, killing and raping passengers. They were later arrested in the Philippine Islands and charged with piracy in the Court of First Instance of Sulu. Their defense argued the court did not have jurisdiction over crimes committed outside Philippine territory. However, the court ruled it had jurisdiction because piracy is a crime against all humanity, not any particular state, and can be prosecuted in any court where the offenders are found. As piracy has no territorial limits, the CFI of Sulu properly had authority over Lol-lo and Saraw.

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    People vs.

    Lol-lo  
    G.R. No. L-17958 
    27 February 1922.  
     
    Facts: 
    ● 2  boats  left  Matuta,  a  Dutch  possession,  for  Peta,  another  Dutch  possession.  In 
    one  of  the  boats was one individual, a Dutch subject, and in the other boat eleven 
    men, women, and children, likewise subjects of Holland. 
    ● The  second  boat  arrived  between  the  Islands  of  Buang  and  Bukid  in  the  Dutch 
    East  Indies.  There  the  boat  was  surrounded  by  six  vintas manned by twenty-four 
    Moros  all  armed.  The  Moros  first  asked  for  food,  but  once  on  the  Dutch  boat, 
    took  for  themselves  all  of  the  cargo,  attacked  some  of  the  men,  and  brutally 
    violated two of the women by methods too horrible to be described.  
    ● All  of  the  persons  on  the  Dutch  boat,  with  the  exception  of  the  two  young 
    women,  were  again  placed  on  it  and  holes  were  made  in  it,  with  the  idea  that  it 
    would  submerge,  although  as  a  matter  of  fact,  these  people,  after  eleven  days  of 
    hardship and privation, were succoured 
    ● Taking  the  two  women  with  them,  and  repeatedly  violating  them,  the  Moros 
    finally  arrived  at  Maruro,  a  Dutch  possession.  Two  of  the  Moro  marauders  were 
    Lol-lo, who also raped one of the women and Saraw. 
    ● At Maruro the two women were able to escape.  
    ● Lol-lo  and  Saraw  later  returned  to  their  home  in  South  Ubian,  Tawi-Tawi,  Sulu, 
    Philippine  Islands.  There  they  were  arrested  and  were  charged  in  the  Court  of 
    First Instance of Suhn with the crime of piracy. 
    ●   A  demurrer  was  interposed  by  counsel  de  officio  for  the  Moros,  based  on  the 
    grounds  that  the  offence  charged  was  not  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Court of 
    First  Instance,  nor  of  any  court  of  the  Philippine  Islands,  and  that  the  facts  did 
    not constitute a public offence, under the laws in force in the Philippine Islands.  
    ● After  the  demurrer  was  overruled  by  the  trial  judge,  a  trial  found  the  two 
    defendants  guilty  and  sentencing  each  of  them  to  life  imprisonment  (cadena 
    perpetua), to return together with Kinawalang and Maulanis. 
    ●   All  of  the  elements  of  the  crime  of  piracy  are  present.  Piracy  is  robbery  or 
    forcible  depredation  on  the  high  seas,  without  lawful  authority  and  done  animo 
    furandi, and in the spirit and intention of universal hostility. 
    ● Pirates are in law hostes humani generis. 
    ● Piracy  is  a  crime  not  against  any  particular  state  but  against  all mankind. It may 
    be  punished  in  the  competent  tribunal  of  any  country where the offender may be 
    found  or  into  which  he  may  be  carried. The jurisdiction of piracy unlike all other 
    crimes has no territorial limits. 
    ● As  it  is  against  all  so  may  it  be  punished by all. Nor does it matter that the crime 
    was  committed  within  the jurisdictional 3-mile limit of a foreign state, "for those 
    limits, though neutral to war, are not neutral to crimes." 
     
    Issue: 
    Does the CFI in the Philippines have jurisdiction over Lol-lo and Saraw? 
     
    Ruling:  
    Yes.  The  CFI  of  Sulu  has  jurisdiction  on  the  case.  Pirates  are  in  law  hostes  humani 
    generis(enemy of mankind).  
    Piracy  is  a  crime  not  against  any  particular  state  but  against  all  mankind.  It  may  be 
    punished  in  the  competent  tribunal  of  any  country  where  the  offender  may  be found or 
    into  which  he  may  be  carried.  The  jurisdiction  of  piracy  unlike  all  other  crimes  has  no 
    territorial  limits.  As  it  is  against  all so may it be punished by all. Nor does it matter that 
    the  crime  was  committed  within  the  jurisdictional  3-mile  limit  of  a  foreign  state,  "for 
    those limits, though neutral to war, are not neutral to crimes.” 
     
     
     
     

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