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People vs. Catolico

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. HON. ALFREDO CATOLICO, DISTRICT JUDGE, COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF CAVITE, BRANCH III, RENATO HORTAL, alias Rene, and FELIPE CRUZ, respondents.

G.R. No. L-31260 | 1972-02-29

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J:

Original action for certiorari with preliminary mandatory injunction against respondent judge's orders denying the State's timely motion for the reinstatement and trial of a criminal case of robbery in band after a verbal order of provisional dismissal and causing the immediate release of the respondents-accused even before his said verbal order of dismissal could be reduced to writing and duly signed.

The undisputed facts of the case are related in the verified petition of the provincial fiscal, as follows:

The criminal information charging respondents Renato Hortal and Felipe Cruz and six other still...