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People vs. Honorable Ancheta, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. HON. CONSTANTE A. ANCHETA, as Presiding Judge of the Circuit Criminal Court, Fifth Judicial District, ROLANDO JAVIER, ROLANDO FAJARDO, and ALBERTO CAPARAS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-39993 | 1975-05-19

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

This certiorari and prohibition proceeding to disqualify respondent Judge Constante A. Ancheta 1 appears to be traceable to deeply-felt misgivings about his partiality for the three accused in a pending criminal case 2 for frustrated homicide. The allegations in the petition, while not overly impressive, amounting at the most to equivocal circumstances which could be the basis for suspicion, led this Court to require comment from respondents and to issue in the meanwhile a restraining order. Such a response was prompted by the oftrepeated judicial pronouncement that every litigant "is entitled to nothing less...