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PEOPLE vs. Ignacio Desiderio 122 Phil. 801

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. IGNACIO DESIDERIO, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-20805 | 1965-11-29

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, J. P., J.: 

As one of the three pillars of our Republic, the Judiciary has a role to play in giving life to the public policy against smuggling. It has a share in the governmental effort to eradicate such pernicious malady, which imperils the nation's economy, stifling the incentives of our businessmen and degrading the morality of our citizenry, as it breeds corruption in the officialdom. Such role is invoked in the present case, within the Judiciary's own sphere of action. 

From an order dismissing, upon a motion to quash, an information for violation of Section 3601 of Republic Act 1937, the...