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PEOPLE vs. Damaso Atienza

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. DAMASO ATIENZA, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-19857 | 1968-10-26

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

This is an appeal from the order of dismissal of the Municipal Court of the City of Cagayan de Oro in its Criminal Case No. 6612. 

Defendant-appellee, Damaso Atienza, was charged with grave oral defamation in the said Court upon a sworn complaint signed by the offended party, Pilar Lee. The defamatory words allegedly uttered by the defendant were: "Pauli na, puta ka. Oo, puta ka, puta kat bilaw." The translation given in the complaint itself is: "Go home, you prostitute. Yes, you are a prostitute, really a prostitute." Below the verification and the list of prosecution witnesses, the complaint...