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Tadiar vs. Cases

ALFREDO F. TADIAR, complainant, vs. MUNICIPAL JUDGE SIMEON CACES of Bauang, La Union, respondent.

A.M. No. 89-MJ and Adm. Case No. 1192 | 1974-10-21

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

On November 6, 1967 two criminal complaints for grave oral defamation were filed by the chief of police in the municipal court of San Fernando, La Union against Consuelo Balanon. The offended parties were Maria F. Tadiar, Alfredo F. Tadiar and Esther Tadiar-Bautista (Exh. A and B, Crim. Cases Nos. 7172-3)

Pedro O. Arciaga, the incumbent municipal judge of San Fernando, inhibited himself. Judge Javier Pabalan of the Court of First Instance of La Union designated Simeon V. Caces, the municipal judge of Bauang, La Union, to try the said cases (Adm. Order No. 101 dated Dec. 9, 1967)

After the prosecution had...