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Soriano vs. Mabbayad

FELIZARDO SORIANO, complainant, vs. JUDGE ALFREDO C. MABBAYAD, respondent.

A.M. No. 378-MJ | 1975-10-24

D E C I S I O N

MAKASIAR, J:

Complainant Felizardo Soriano of Roxas, Isabela, in a letter dated December 20, 1970 to District Judge Guillermo Romero of Isabela, charged respondent municipal judge Alfredo C. Mabbayad of Roxas with "grave abuse of discretion and/or gross incompetence and inefficiency amounting to ignorance of the law." The complainant is the brother of the deceased Pablo Soriano who was killed on or about May 5, 1970.

From the records, one Melencio Aban alias Inciong was charged with murder for the death of Pablo Soriano in Criminal Case No. 1072 filed on May 6, 1970 with the municipal court of Roxas, Isabela (Exh. 2, p....