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Demetrio B. Encarnacion Vs. Jose L. Baltazar, Et Al.111 Phil. 450

DEMETRIO B. ENCARNACION, petitioner, vs. JOSE L. BALTAZAR, Justice of the Peace of San Fernando, Pampanga, and UNION C. KAYANAN, Provincial Fiscal of Pampanga, respondents.

G.R. No. L-16883 | 1961-03-27

D E C I S I O N 


BARRERA, J.: 

On December 18, 1958, respondent Provincial Fiscal of Pampanga filed with the Court of First Instance of Pampanga an information (Criminal Case No. 3477) charging petitioner Demetrio B. Encarnacion with the crime of serious slander by deed, defined and penalized under Article 359 of the Revised Penal Code, to wit: 

"That on December 17, 1958, in a public place in the office and in the presence of the Provincial Fiscal and several other persons, municipality of San Fernando, province of Pampanga, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused DEMETRIO B....