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FELIX BARJA, complainant, vs. JUDGE BONIFACIO B. BERCACIO as Municipal Judge of Tabaco, Albay, respondent.

FELIX BARJA, complainant, vs. JUDGE BONIFACIO B. BERCACIO as Municipal Judge of Tabaco, Albay, respondent.

A.C. No. 561-MJ | 1976-12-29

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

The Court finds respondent judge guilty of dishonesty and misappropriation to his own use of fiduciary funds (proceeds of cash bail bond), compounded by subsequent manifestly false claims and statements that were properly described "as unbelievable as they are illogical" and orders his immediate separation from the service with all the penalties appurtenant thereto.

On October 4, 1973, complainant filed the present administrative case charging respondent Bonifacio B. Bercacio, judge of the municipal court of Tabaco, Albay with (a) dishonesty, (b) malicious delay in the disposal of cases and (c) conduct...