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Ambrocio Lacuna vs. Benjamin H. Abes

AMBROCIO LACUNA, petitioner-appellant, vs. BENJAMIN H. ABES, respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. L-28613 | 1968-08-27

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J.: 

Appeal from a dismissal, after trial, of a petition for quo warranto (Civil Case No. 306 of the Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija, Branch V, Gapan) challenging the eligibility of the herein respondent-appellee, Benjamin Abes, to the position of mayor of Peñaranda, Nueva Ecija, to which he was duly proclaimed elected in the elections of 14 November 1967. 

Mayor-elect Abes (appellee herein) had been convicted of the crime of counterfeiting treasury warrants and sentenced to an indeterminate penalty of six (6) years and one (1) day to eight (8) years, eight (8) months, and one (1) day of...