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PNR vs. Domingo, et al.

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS, petitioner, vs. HON. FELIX R. DOMINGO and JUAN MAFE, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30772 | 1971-10-29

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J:

Original action for certiorari and prohibition certified to this Court by the Court of Appeals, since it raises a purely legal question, "as to the jurisdiction of respondent judge to issue the amendatory decision in dispute."

Private respondent Juan Mafe, a mechanic in the employ of the Philippine National Railways was charged in an information for qualified theft filed with respondent court, 1 for having stolen one brass bearing valued at P45.00 from his employer's shop. The evidence for the prosecution consisted of the testimonies of the Railways' policeman who apprehended respondent in street clothes...