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Albano vs. Gapusan 71 SCRA 26

REDENTOR ALBANO, complainant, vs. MUNICIPAL JUDGE PATROCINIO C. GAPUSAN of Dumalneg, Ilocos Norte, respondent.

A.M. No. 1022-MJ | 1976-06-07

R E S O L U T I O N

AQUINO, J:

Redentor Albano in a verified complaint dated August 18, 1975 charged Municipal Judge Patrocinio C. Gapusan of Dumalneg and Adams, Ilocos Norte (1) with incompetence and ignorance of the law for having prepared and notarized a document providing for the personal separation of husband and wife and the extrajudicial liquidation of their conjugal partnership and (2) with having allegedly influenced Judge Zacarias A. Crispin of the Court of First Instance of Ilocos Norte in deciding two criminal cases.

Malpractice as a notary. In 1941 or five years before his appointment to the bench, respondent Gapusan notarized a...